{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-schemes-amendment-and-consolidation-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-schemes-amendment-and-consolidation-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1288",
  "legislation_title": "The Redundant Mineworkers (Payments Schemes) (Amendment and Consolidation) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-schemes-amendment-and-consolidation-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Eligibility for payments",
  "text": "–\n(1) Any person who was on the relevant date employed at a coal mine or a prescribed place within Part 1 of Appendix 1 being either–\n(a) a person so employed by the Corporation, by one of their subsidiaries, 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, be eligible for payments under this Scheme; such a person is hereinafter referred to as a “coal industry employee”.\n(2) Any person who was on the relevant date employed by a coking plant operator at a coking plant or prescribed place within Part 2 of Appendix 1, who–\n(i) was a daily paid industrial worker employed in a capacity described in the first Schedule to an agreement on the national grading structure for the coke and by-product industry made on 5th April 1956 between the Corporation and National Union of Mineworkers; or\n(ii) was weekly paid industrial staff who was, or would if employed in the same capacity by a subsidiary of the Corporation being a coke plant operator be, in a grade within the first Schedule to an agreement dated 1 st September 1965 between the Corporation and National Union of Mineworkers; or\n(iii) was employed in a grade specified in numbers 3 to 10 inclusive of Appendix 2 or in a capacity equivalent thereto,\nshall, subject as hereinafter provided, be eligible for payments under this Scheme and is also hereinafter 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/1996/1288/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:43:53.085232+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."
}