{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-working-facilities-and-support-act-1966/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-working-facilities-and-support-act-1966/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1966/4",
  "legislation_title": "Mines (Working Facilities And Support) Act 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-working-facilities-and-support-act-1966",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Duty of Ministers and National Coal Board to assist the court, and right to appear in court proceedings.",
  "text": "The Secretary of State and any other Government Department . . . shall give to the court such assistance as the court may require for the purposes of their duties, under this Act, and shall be entitled to appear and be heard at any proceedings on an application before the court under this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1969/1498, arts. 2(1), 5(6) and 1970/1537, arts. 2(2), 7(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 9 repealed (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, ss. 67, 68(2)(e), Sch. 11 Pt. II (with ss. 40(7), 66); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1966/4/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:42.440144+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."
}