Determining the essence, correlation and types of objects of law and objects of legal relations is considered one of the most debatable issues in the theory of law, having significant theoretical and practical significance. This article analyzes the constitutional, subsoil and gemological legislation regulating relations arising out from material gemological objects. The objective of this study is to understand intersectoral aspects of gemstones of natural origin, having been considered as an object of legal relations. The methodology comprised of dialectical, comparative legal, formal legal (dogmatic), formal logical, critical legal, systemic-structural and systemic-functional methods. This is the first time when geological-legal science has proposed the foundation of a dualistic theory addressing the multi-level structure of objects of gemological legal relations. It consists of the symbiosis of gemologically-significant actions and goods. The article also proposes general legal definition (an object of gemological law, an object of legal regulation of gemological law, an object of gemological legal relations), and special-legal definition (amber-bearing subsoil, natural gemstones) aimed at developing and improving the national gemological law.

The article analyzes the scientific and legislative provisions connected with the specifity of the legal regulation of relations in the field of gemological activity and gemological objects. The current state of sources of gemological law and their belonging are investigated, which is nowadays ambiguous, since they get to a system of currency law (a component of financial and credit or budgetary and financial legislation) as well as to a system of industrial legislation, while having the provisions of mining, economic, civil, administrative, fiscal, customs and expert legislation in the contents. It is proposed to consider gemological law as a set of legal norms regulating public relations in the field of organizing and carrying out gemological activities connected with the acquisition of the right to use, mining, property, use and operations with gemological objects in the form of subsoil, mineral, production and secondary resources, control over their turnover and expertise. It is noted that consideration of precious stones and precious metals, having geological and mineralogical, physicochemical, jewellery and industrial, and legal differences, as the complex object in the context of the domain of the unified legislative act, intended to be a basis of new market relations in the field of jewellery transactions, could be regarded as the justified one only at the early stage of legislative base formation for the field. Provisions are given, according to which it is recognized that the current law is outdated, since its subject of regulation has been transferred mainly to the subordinate level; the mechanisms for replenishing state funds provided in it are contradictory, incomplete and practically not implemented in practice; the form of restrictions in the circulation of valuable objects and their validity are debatable; relations of the quality and safety of products, consumer protection, ensuring a balance of public and private interests, equality of business entities, competitiveness of the industry need updating in European integration legal regulation. For the first time in the context of geological and legislative science, the authors propose to form a structure of the gemological law system based upon the principles of differentiation of a type of gemologically important activities for generic derivatives (i.e. gemological and resource law; right of gemological circulation; right of gemological expertise etc.) as well as a type of gemological objects and resources for direct groups. Development prospects of gemological legislation are connected with its reduction to a certain agreed system and its unity provision by means of the internal and external improvement of contents and development of the Gemological Code of Ukraine.

Purpose.To study the main elements of mining safety, as well as to formulate the definition of the concept of mining safety for its use in legal regulations of mining relations from the viewpoint of scientific literature and the norms of current legislation. Methodology.The results were obtained after applying a set of methods: a) general philosophical methods (dialectical, anthropological);b) general scientific methods (abstraction, analysis and synthesis, system analysis, classification);c) legal methods (historical and legal, comparative legal, semantic and legal). Findings.Based on the analysis of the main categories of general security theory and their application in the legislation of Ukraine, the etymology of the legal term security is studied and it is shown that the definition of this concept depends on the context of the normative legal act in which it is used. This necessitates the improvement of the conceptual apparatus of mining legislation and the development of the category mining safety. It is argued that unification of this legal category and clarification of its authentic definition will contribute to the achievement of unity and consistency of the current mining legislation, the proper regulation of public relations to ensure protection of Ukraines national interests in the field of subsoil use. The necessity of expanding the list of possible hazards of geological study and subsoil use provided for by the current legislation was substantiated. It is proposed to consolidate the authors definition of mining safety in the corresponding paragraph of Article 1 of the Mining Law of Ukraine. Originality.As a result of lexical and legal analysis, it was concluded that the definition of security depending on the context of the legal act in which it is used and the characteristics of the subject of legal regulation of certain social relations is defined as: security; security status; provision (regulatory compliance); set of measures; aggregate of nonuniform resources. Taking into account the geospheric characteristics of subsoil, as well as the peculiarities of hazard occurrence and manifestation during subsoil use, the authors put forward a classification of hazards manifestation during mining operations (geomorphological, lithospheric, geodynamic, gas-dynamic, hydrodynamic, geopathogenic, microbiological hazards, as well as the hazards of mineral nanoparticles). The additions are substantiated to the current legislation (part 1 of Article 1 of the Mining Law of Ukraine) with the following definition of the safety of mining operations: protection of vital interests of a person, society and the state from negative manifestations of geomorphological, lithospheric, geodynamic, gas-dynamic, hydrodynamic, geopathogenic, microbiological and other factors in the course of processes aimed at carrying out, securing and maintaining mine workings and withdrawing mining rocks. Practical value.The practical significance of the results is based on the fact that they can be used by the subjects of legislative initiative when improving the provisions of the current legislation of Ukraine, as well as by practical workers to organize and conduct mining operations.