{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-safety-of-exit-regulations-1988/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-safety-of-exit-regulations-1988/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1729",
  "legislation_title": "The Mines (Safety of Exit) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-safety-of-exit-regulations-1988",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Coal and Other Mines (Managers and Officials) Regulations 1956 shall be modified as follows:—\n(a) in regulation 16 (which relates to a deputy’s duty to fence off dangerous places) for “section thirty-three of the Act” substitute “regulation 8 of the Mines (Safety of Exit) Regulations 1988”;\n(b) in regulation 20 (which relates to a deputy’s duty to be acquainted with ways leading to exits) for “of egress therefrom or from any place therein” substitute “each leading to a different exit” and for “section twenty-four of the Act” substitute “regulation 7(1) of the Mines (Safety of Exit) Regulations 1988” and after “from the district” for “and from any such place” substitute “and from every place where a person works”; so that regulation 20 now reads—\n“20 A deputy to whom any district is assigned (otherwise than during the temporary absence of another deputy) shall, where not less than two ways, each leading to a different exit are required under regulation 7(1) of the Mines (Safety of Exit) Regulations 1988 forthwith make himself acquainted with two such ways from the district and from every place where a person works therein, and shall thereafter travel along the whole of each of them once at least in each month during which that district is assigned to him.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1956/1758; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1961/817, 1962/594, 1963/1617, 1966/882, 1975/1102, and 1978/1648."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1729/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:56:59.671370+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."
}