{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stratified-ironstone-shale-and-fireclay-mines-explosives-regulations-1956/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stratified-ironstone-shale-and-fireclay-mines-explosives-regulations-1956/regulation-46.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/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Additional qualifications—shot firers and persons appointed to fire shots by fuse",
  "text": "Without prejudice to the generality of Part II of these regulations, no person shall, with respect to any part of a mine to which this Part of these regulations applies, be qualified to be appointed or to be a shot firer or person appointed to fire shots by fuse unless he has within the last preceding five years obtained a certificate that he was then able to make accurate tests for inflammable gas (so far as is practicable with a flame safety-lamp) being a certificate granted—\n(a) by a university or university college; or\n(b) by a school, college or institution maintained or assisted by a local education authority; or\n(c) in any other manner approved for the purpose by an inspector.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1943/regulation/46",
    "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."
}