{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-regulations-2014/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-regulations-2014/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3248",
  "legislation_title": "The Mines Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Power of safety representatives to report imminent risk",
  "text": "Where two or more safety representatives (within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations 1977) consider that there is an imminent risk of serious personal injury arising from an activity carried out below ground at a mine, they—\n(a) may make a report in writing to the mine operator; and\n(b) may provide a copy of that report to the Executive.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in force at 6.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1977/500."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3248/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:54:12.880132+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."
}