{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bitton-light-railway-order-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bitton-light-railway-order-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/134",
  "legislation_title": "The Bitton Light Railway Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bitton-light-railway-order-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TRANSPORT\nMade 28th January 1991\nComing into force 29th January 1991\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, on the application of Kingswood Borough Council and the Bitton Railway Company Limited, and in exercise of powers conferred by sections 3, 7, and 9 to 12 of the Light Railways Act 1896, and by section 121(4) of the Transport Act 1968, and now vested in him, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1896 c. 48; section 3 was amended by the Light Railways Act 1912 (c. 19), section 5(1); sections 7 and 9 were repealed in part by the Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), section 86(2) and Schedule 9; section 10 was repealed in part by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986 (c. 12), Schedule 1; section 11 was amended by the Light Railways Act 1912, section 5(3), and the Railways Act 1921, section 73(1) and was repealed in part and further amended in respects not relevant to this Order; section 12 was repealed in part by the Finance Act 1929 (c. 21), section 6 and Schedule."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1968 c. 73."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1970/1681, 1979/571 and 1981/238."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/134/introduction",
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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."
}