{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-act-1954/section-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-act-1954/section-35.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/70",
  "legislation_title": "Mines and Quarries Act 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-act-1954",
  "path": "section/35",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Height and width of travelling roads.",
  "text": "(1) Every length of road in a mine which is used at the beginning or end of a shift by not less than ten persons for the purpose of walking to or from their working places in the mine, being a length made after the commencement of this Act, shall be not less than 1.7 metres high throughout:\nProvided that—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) an inspector may, by notice served on the manager of a particular mine, exempt from those provisions any such length of road as aforesaid in that mine or any part of any such length of road.\n2)—(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 22–25, 33–35 repealed (1.4.1989, in part, and 1.4.1994, fully) by S.I. 1988/1729, regs. 1(1), 12(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1976/2063, reg. 3(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II except as to shafts sunk, or as the case may be, lengths of road made before 1.2.1977"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 35(1)(a) repealed by S.I. 1974/2013, Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Ss. 34(2), 35(2)—(4) repealed by S.I. 1975/1102, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/70/section/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:40.206842+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}