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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-tips-act-1969/section-11",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1969/10",
  "legislation_title": "Mines And Quarries (Tips) Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-and-quarries-tips-act-1969",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Local authorities having functions under Part II.",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of ensuring that disused tips do not, by reason of instability, constitute a danger to members of the public, local authorities shall have the functions conferred on them by this Part of this Act.\n(2) For the purposes of this Part of this Act a disused tip is a tip other than one to which the Quarries Regulations 1999 or the Mines Regulations 2014 apply.\n(3) In this Part of this Act “local authority”, . . . means—\n(a) in England . . ., the council of a county, . . . metropolitan districtor London borough, the Common Council of the City of London or the Council of the Isles of Scilly,\n(aa) in Wales, the council of a county or county borough, and\n(b) in Scotland, a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.\n(3A) In this Part of this Act, “tip” means an accumulation or deposit of refuse from a mine or quarry (whether in a solid state or in solution or suspension) other than an accumulation or deposit situated underground, and where any wall or other structure retains or confines a tip then, whether or not that wall or structure is itself composed of refuse, it is deemed to form part of the tip for the purposes of this Part.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 11(2) substituted (6.4.2015) by The Mines Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3248), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 3(a) (with reg. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(3)(a) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6)(8), Sch. 16 para. 34, Sch. 18 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55, Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words inserted by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 16, Sch. 8 para. 27"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 11(3)(aa) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6), Sch. 16 para. 34 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(3)(b) substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 81 (with s. 128(8)); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 11(3A) inserted (6.4.2015) by The Mines Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3248), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 3(b) (with reg. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 11(4) repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "asc/2025/4",
      "affecting_title": "Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "asc/2025/4",
      "affecting_title": "Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Act 2025"
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    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "asc/2025/4",
      "affecting_title": "Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Act 2025"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/10/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:20.641469+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."
}