{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-scheme-order-1972/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-scheme-order-1972/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1972/335",
  "legislation_title": "The Redundant Mineworkers (Payments Scheme) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-scheme-order-1972",
  "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 or by a small mine licensee—\n(i) in a grade which renders him eligible for membership of the Mineworkers' 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 the former Scheme, be eligible for payments under this Scheme and such person is hereafter referred to as a “coal industry employee”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1976/495",
      "affecting_title": "The Redundant Mineworkers and Concessionary Coal (Payments Schemes) (Amendment) Order 1976"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/335/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:33:49.653702+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."
}