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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/golden-valley-railway-order-1997/article-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1688",
  "legislation_title": "The Golden Valley Railway Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/golden-valley-railway-order-1997",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Operation of railways",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker may operate and use the railways as a system, or part of a system, of transport for the carriage of passengers and goods.\n(2) Subject as below, the motive power to be used on the railways shall be steam, diesel-electric, diesel, internal combustion, electric-battery or such other motive power as the Secretary of State may in writing approve.\n(3) Nothing in this Order shall authorise the use of electrical power as motive power on the railways unless such power is obtained from storage batteries or from a source of generation entirely contained in and carried along with the engines and carriages.\n(4) If electrical power is used as motive power on the railways, such electrical power shall not be used in such a manner as to cause or be likely to cause any interference with any telecommunications apparatus (as defined in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984) or with telecommunication by means of such apparatus.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1688/article/10",
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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."
}