{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bure-valley-railway-light-railway-order-1989/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bure-valley-railway-light-railway-order-1989/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/835",
  "legislation_title": "The Bure Valley Railway Light Railway Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bure-valley-railway-light-railway-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 Board’s railway” means the railway or former railway of the Board described in Schedule 1 to this Order together with all lands and works relating thereto;\n“the Company” means the Bure Valley Railway Limited incorporated under the Companies Act 1985 and having its registered office at Boundary Road, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 0JY;\n“the Council” means the Broadland District Council;\n“the deposited plans” and “the deposited sections” mean respectively the plans and sections deposited in respect of the application for this Order with the Secretary of State for Transport;\n“the lease” means any lease granted under paragraph (1) of article 7 (Leasing of railway to Company) of this Order, any extension of the same or any new lease granted under any statutory powers or provisions;\n“the operators” means the Council or, during the currency of the term created by the lease, the Company;\n“the principal Act” means the Light Railways Acts 1896 and 1912, as amended by the Railways Act 1921;\n“the railway” means the railway authorised to be constructed, made and maintained by the operators pursuant to article 5 of this Order together with all lands and works relating thereto and, where any part of the said railway and works remains uncompleted, includes the site of that part;\n“telecommunications apparatus” has the meaning given by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984;\n“the transfer date” means the day on which the Board’s railway or any part thereof is vested in the Council by virtue of an agreement made under article 4 (Transfer of Board’s railway to Council) of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2155",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/835/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:44:25.876054+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."
}