{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stratified-ironstone-shale-and-fireclay-mines-explosives-regulations-1956/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stratified-ironstone-shale-and-fireclay-mines-explosives-regulations-1956/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1956/1943",
  "legislation_title": "The Stratified Ironstone, Shale and Fireclay Mines (Explosives) Regulations 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stratified-ironstone-shale-and-fireclay-mines-explosives-regulations-1956",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If any electric shot firing apparatus appears to be defective, the shot firer in charge of it shall not use it further but shall cause it to be returned to the surface forthwith and shall report the circumstances to the deputy in charge of the district and in writing to the manager.\n(2) If any electric shot firing apparatus approved for multi-shot firing fails to fire all the shots in any properly connected round at one operation, it shall be deemed to be defective for the purposes of the last preceding paragraph but it may be used to fire the shots in that round in accordance with the provisions of regulation forty.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1897",
      "affecting_title": "The Management and Administration of Safety and Health at Mines Regulations 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1943/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:14:32.808532+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."
}