{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-and-concessionary-coal-payments-schemes-order-1978/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-and-concessionary-coal-payments-schemes-order-1978/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/415",
  "legislation_title": "The Redundant Mineworkers and Concessionary Coal (Payments Schemes) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-and-concessionary-coal-payments-schemes-order-1978",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Eligibility for payment",
  "text": "Any person who is or was on the relevant date employed at a coal mine or a prescribed place being either—\n(a) a person so employed by the Board, by one of their subsidiaries, or by a small mine licensee—\n(i) in a grade which renders him eligible for membership of the Mine-workers' Pension Scheme; or\n(ii) in a grade which is specified in Appendix 2; or\n(b) a person so employed as a workmen's employee,\nshall, subject as hereinafter provided, and provided he is not eligible for payments under any of the former Schemes, be eligible for payments under this Scheme; such a person is hereafter referred to as a “coal industry employee”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/415/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:37:50.379920+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."
}