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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-eccles-extension-order-1996/article-36",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2714",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Eccles Extension) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-eccles-extension-order-1996",
  "path": "article/36",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Maintenance of approved works, etc.",
  "text": "(1) Where pursuant to regulations made under section 41 of the Act (approval of works, plant and equipment) approval has been obtained from the Secretary of State with respect to any works, plant or equipment (including vehicles) forming part of the authorised transit system, such works, plant and equipment shall not be used in a state or condition other than that in which they were at the time that the approval was given unless any change thereto does not materially impair the safe operation of the authorised transit system.\n(2) If without reasonable cause the provisions of paragraph (1) above are contravened, the undertaker shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3) No proceedings shall be instituted in England and Wales in respect of an offence under this article except by or with the consent of the Secretary of State or the Director of Public Prosecutions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1936",
      "affecting_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Ashton-under-Lyne Extension) Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1266",
      "affecting_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Airport Extension) Order 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1266",
      "affecting_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Airport Extension) Order 1997"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2714/article/36",
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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."
}