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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-of-injuries-diseases-and-dangerous-occurrences-regulations-1995/schedule-5/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3163",
  "legislation_title": "The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995",
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  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“appropriate person” means—\n(a) in the case of a coal mine, the responsible person or a person appointed in the management structure of that mine established pursuant to paragraph (1) of regulation 10 of the Management and Administration of Safety and Health at Mines Regulations 1993;\n(b) in the case of any other mine, the responsible person;\n(c) in the case of a quarry—\n(i) the responsible person, or\n(ii) (where there is a sole manager) that manager, or\n(iii) (where there are two or more managers) the manager of the part of the quarry where the accident or dangerous occurrence happened, or\n(iv) any person who is for the time being treated for the purposes of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954 as such a manager;\n“nominated person” means the person (if any) who is for the time being nominated—\n(a) in a case where there is an association or body representative of a majority of the total number of persons employed at a mine or quarry, by that association or body;\n(b) in any other case, jointly by associations or bodies which are together representative of such a majority,\nto receive on behalf of the persons so employed notices under this Schedule.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 1 in force at 1.4.1996, see reg. 1"
    },
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/1897."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1954 c. 70."
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