{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-miscellaneous-health-and-safety-provisions-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-miscellaneous-health-and-safety-provisions-regulations-1995/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2005",
  "legislation_title": "The Mines Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-miscellaneous-health-and-safety-provisions-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1954 Act” means the Mines and Quarries Act 1954;\n“the 1992 Regulations” means the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992;\n“the 1993 Regulations” means the Management and Administration of Safety and Health at Mines Regulations 1993;\n“approved” means approved for the time being in writing by the Executive and “approve” and “approval” shall be construed accordingly;\n“employer” includes the owner if he employs persons at work at the mine;\n“the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive;\n“gas outburst” means a sudden release of gas with or without the projection of minerals or rocks;\n“the health and safety document” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 4;\n“hydraulic fluid” means a fluid used for the transmission of hydrostatic or hydrokinetic mechanical energy;\n“manager” means—\n(a) the person appointed as the manager of the mine under regulation 8 of the 1993 Regulations; and\n(b) in relation to a part of a mine, the person appointed as the manager of that part under regulation 15 of the 1993 Regulations;\n“mine” means a mine within the meaning of the 1954 Act;\n“owner” means an owner within the meaning of section 181 of the 1954 Act;\n“rockburst” means a sudden failure of stopes, pillars, walls or other rock buttresses adjacent to or in the mine workings.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n(a) a reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered; and\n(b) a reference to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which that reference occurs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 70, extended by the Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969 (c. 10): relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1974/2013, 2063 and S.I. 1993/1897."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/2051; amended by S.I. 1994/2865."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/1897."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3242",
      "affecting_title": "The Management of Health and Safety at Work"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2005/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:04:35.714147+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."
}