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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-consumer-rights-rail-passenger-service-exemption-enforcement-and-amendments-order-2016/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111148112",
  "legislation_title": "The Consumer Rights (Rail Passenger Service Exemption, Enforcement and Amendments) Order 2016",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Consumer Rights Act 2015;\n“European rail operator licence” means a licence granted pursuant to—\n(a) a provision contained in any instrument made for the purpose of implementing—\n(i) Council Directive 95/18/EC of 19th June 1995 on the licensing of railway undertakings, or\n(ii) Chapter III of Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21st November 2012 establishing a single European railway area (recast), or\n(b) any action taken by an EEA State for that purpose;\n“railway” has the meaning given by section 67(1) of the Transport and Works Act 1992;\n“railway undertaking” means any undertaking, the principal business of which is to provide services for the transport of goods or passengers by railway; and\n“relevant railway passenger service” means any service for the carriage of passengers operated by a railway undertaking pursuant to a European rail operator licence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 143, 27.6.95, p70, repealed by Directive 2012/34/EU, OJ No L 343, 14.12.2012, p32."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No L 343, 14.12.2012, p32, as corrected by Corrigendum, OJ No L 67, 12.3.2015, p32."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1992 c.42."
    }
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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."
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