{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-regulations-2014/regulation-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-regulations-2014/regulation-57.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3248",
  "legislation_title": "The Mines Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/57",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Self-rescuers",
  "text": "(1) In any mine in which the risk assessment carried out in accordance with regulation 3 of the Management Regulations has identified the likelihood of an irrespirable atmosphere, the mine operator must provide—\n(a) suitable self-rescuers for all persons going below ground at the mine; and\n(b) where necessary, safe havens or facilities below ground for the exchange and recharge of self rescuers.\n(2) The mine operator must ensure that every person who has been issued with a self-rescuer—\n(a) has been instructed how to use it; and\n(b) does not go below ground without it.\n(3) The mine operator must ensure that, so far as is reasonably practicable, every person who has been issued with a self-rescuer keeps it within the person’s reach at all times when below ground.\n(4) The mine operator must ensure that all self-rescuers are checked regularly and stored in a suitable place at the mine.\n(5) In this regulation, “safe haven” means a place below ground at a mine which is provided with facilities such that persons may wait there in safety to be rescued or until it is safe to leave.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 57 in force at 6.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3248/regulation/57",
    "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."
}