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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/427",
  "legislation_title": "The Mines Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the case of face workings where packs are used—\n(a) the maximum width of roof exposed by the working of mineral since the completion of the last pack shall be 2.1 metres; and\n(b) the waste edge parallel to the face shall be no more than 1.5 metres in advance of the front line of pack bounding that waste.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 5 in operation at 1.2.2017, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/427/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:53:48.438248+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."
}