{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-mines-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-mines-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-47.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1956/1778",
  "legislation_title": "The Miscellaneous Mines Order 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-mines-order-1956",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/47",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) No rope which has been re-capped shall be used in any haulage apparatus by means of which persons are carried or in any winding apparatus unless on the last occasion on which it was re-capped a part of the rope including the capping not less than six feet in length was cut off: so however that if at the date of any re-capping the preceding capping or re-capping was done not more than three, four of five months previously the part to be cut off need not exceed three, four or five feet respectively.\n(2) Any length of rope cut off in pursuance of this regulation shall forthwith be opened up and its internal condition examined by a competent person appointed for the purpose by the manager of the mine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1778/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:15:24.935841+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."
}