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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-bodies-abolition-of-the-railway-heritage-committee-order-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111530573",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Railway Heritage Committee) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-bodies-abolition-of-the-railway-heritage-committee-order-2013",
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  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order abolishes the Railway Heritage Committee (the “Committee”) and transfers to the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum (the “Board of Trustees”) the Committee’s functions, under the Railway Heritage Act 1996, relating to the designation and disposal of historically significant railway records and artefacts.).\nArticle 2 abolishes the Committee and transfers its functions to the Board of Trustees and amends the Railway Heritage Act 1996 (“the 1996 Act”). Section 2 of the 1996 Act, which provides for the establishment of a Committee is repealed and all references in the 1996 Act to the Committee are replaced with references to the Board of Trustees. A definition for the Board of Trustees is included in section 7 of the 1996 Act.\nArticle 6 revokes the Railway Heritage Scheme Order 2005 which gave effect to the Railway Heritage Scheme under section 2 of the 1996 Act. The Scheme provided for the continued establishment of the Railway Heritage Committee.\nConsequential amendments to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967, the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Public Bodies Act 2011 and the Freedom of Information (Additional Public Authorities) Order 2010 are made by Articles 3 to 5 and Article 7 and Article 8 sets out savings.\nAn Impact Assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no cost to the business or voluntary sectors is foreseen. An Explanatory Document is available alongside the instrument onwww.legislation.gov.uk",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111530573/note",
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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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