Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:— “the Board” means the British Railways Board; “the Council” means the Wallingford Town Council in the district of South Oxfordshire; “the Society” means the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway Preservation Society incorporated under the Companies Act 1985^f1 and whose registered office is at7 St Martin’s Street, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 0AN; “the principal Act” means the Light Railways Acts 1896 and 1912, as amended by the Railways Act 1921; “the enabling Acts” means the Wallingford and Watlington Railway Act 1864 and the Great Western Railway Act 1872^f2; “the Board’s railway” means so much of the former railway of the Board in the district of South Oxfordshire in the County of Oxfordshire authorised by the enabling Acts as is co-extensive with the railway described in the Schedule to this Order including all lands and works relating thereto; “the Society’s railway” means the railway in the district of South Oxfordshire authorised to be constructed, made and maintained by the Society pursuant to article 4 of this Order, and where any part of that railway remains uncompleted, includes the site of that part:and all directions and distances stated in the description of the Board’s railway shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after each direction and distance, and distances between points on the railway shall be taken to be measured along the railway.