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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bitton-light-railway-order-1991/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/134",
  "legislation_title": "The Bitton Light Railway Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bitton-light-railway-order-1991",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Gauge of railway and motive power",
  "text": "The railway shall be constructed and operated on a nominal gauge of 1.435 metres (4 feet 8 ½ inches) and the motive power shall be steam, diesel-electric, diesel, internal combustion, electric-battery or such other motive power as the Secretary of State may approve:\nProvided that nothing in this Order shall authorise the operators to use electrical power as motive power on the railway unless such power is obtained from storage batteries or from a source of generation entirely contained in and carried along with the engines and carriages:\nProvided also that, if electrical power is used as motive power on the railway, such electrical power shall not be used in such a manner as to cause or be likely to cause any interference with any telecommunications apparatus (as defined in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984, or with telecommunication by means of such apparatus.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2155",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/134/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:52:37.665468+00:00"
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  "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."
}