{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-railways-board-vale-of-rheidol-light-railway-amendment-order-1989/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-railways-board-vale-of-rheidol-light-railway-amendment-order-1989/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/599",
  "legislation_title": "The British Railways Board (Vale of Rheidol) Light Railway (Amendment) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-railways-board-vale-of-rheidol-light-railway-amendment-order-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:–\n“the Board” means the British Railways Board;\n“the Company” means Vale of Rheidol Railway Limited incorporated under the Companies Act 1985 and having its registered office at Euston House, 24 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1D2;\n“Railway No. 1” and “Railway No. 2” mean respectively the railways more particularly described in the Schedule to this Order;\n“the railways” means Railway No. 1 and Railway No. 2;\n“the Scheme” means a scheme made under Part I of the Transport Act 1981 transferring the property, rights and liabilities of the Board in the railways to the Company;\n“the specified enactment” means section 25 (Restrictions on weight on rails and speed) of the Vale of Rheidol Light Railway (Aberayron Extension) Order 1898; and\n“the transfer date” means the day on which the railways are vested in the Company by virtue of the Scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/599/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:45:58.434101+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."
}