{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caernarfon-railway-light-railway-order-1997/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caernarfon-railway-light-railway-order-1997/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2534",
  "legislation_title": "The Caernarfon Railway Light Railway Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caernarfon-railway-light-railway-order-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Incorporation of Railways Clauses Acts",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 shall be incorporated in this Order—\nsection 6 (compensation);\nsection 7 (correction of errors);\nsections 18 to 23 (water and gas pipes);\nsection 24 (obstructing construction of railway);\nsections 30 to 44 (temporary use of land) subject to article 10(5) below;\nsection 46 (crossing of roads—level crossings) subject to paragraph (4) below;\nsection 47 (provision in cases where roads are crossed on a level);\nsection 58 (company to repair roads used by them), except for the words from “and if any question” to the end;\nsection 61 (company to make sufficient approaches and fences to highways crossing on the level);\nsection 68 (accommodation works by company);\nsection 71 (additional accommodation works by owners), except for the words “or directed by such justices to be made by the company” and “or, in case of difference, as shall be authorised by two justices”;\nsections 72 and 73 (supplementary provisions relating to accommodation works);\nsection 75 (omission to fasten gates);\nsection 77 (presumption that minerals excepted from acquisition of land);\nsections 78 to 85E and Schedules 1 to 3 (minerals under railways), as respectively substituted and inserted by section 15 of the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1923;\nsections 103 and 104 (refusal to quit carriage at destination);\nsection 105 (carriage of dangerous goods on railway);\nsection 145 (recovery of penalties); and\nsection 154 (transient offenders).\n(2) The following provisions of the Railways Clauses Act 1863 shall be incorporated in this Order—\nsections 5, 6 and 7 (level crossings); and\nsection 12 (signals, watchmen, etc.).\n(3) In those provisions, as incorporated in this Order—\n“the company” means the Company;\n“goods” includes any thing conveyed on the railway;\n“lease” includes an agreement for a lease;\n“prescribed”, in relation to any such provision, means prescribed by this Order for the purposes of that provision;\n“the railway” means any railway authorised to be constructed by this Order and, except where the context otherwise requires, any other authorised works; and\n“the special Act” means this Order.\n(4) In section 46 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, as incorporated in this Order, for the proviso there shall be substituted the words “Provided always, that, with the consent of the highway authority and subject to such conditions as the authority may reasonably impose, the railway may be carried across a highway on the level”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1845 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1923 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1863 c. 92."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2534/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:47:12.420596+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."
}