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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-railways-convention-on-international-carriage-by-rail-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110729609",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-railways-convention-on-international-carriage-by-rail-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n(a) except where the context otherwise requires a reference to an Article is a reference to the Article so numbered in the Convention and a reference to a paragraph of an Article shall be construed accordingly; and\n(b) an expression used in these Regulations and in the Convention has the same meaning as in the Convention.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the 1933 Act” means the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933;\n“the 1976 Act” means the Fatal Accidents Act 1976;\n“the committees” means any of the following—\n(a) the Revision Committee as described in Article 17;\n(b) the RID Expert Committee as described in Article 18; and\n(c) the Committee of Technical Experts as described in Article 20;\n“the Convention” means the version of the “Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) of 9th May 1980” as set out after Article 7 of the Protocol and forming an integral part of the Protocol and comprising—\n(a) the Convention itself;\n(b) the Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail referred to in paragraph 4 of Article 1; and\n(c) Appendices A to G to the Convention, including the Annexes to Appendices C and F;\nas modified in accordance with its provisions from time to time by a decision of one of the committees under paragraph 4, 5 or 6 of Article 33, as the case may be, whether such modification occurs before or after the coming into force of these Regulations; and\n“the Protocol” means the Protocol signed at Vilnius on 3rd June 1999 to modify the “Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) of 9th May 1980”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1933 c. 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1976 c. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "An acronym for “Convention relative aux Transports Internationaux Ferroviaires”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Cm 4873."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Cm 3812."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
}