{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-exemptions-order-2013/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-exemptions-order-2013/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/339",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Exemptions) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-exemptions-order-2013",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Licence exemption",
  "text": "Subject to article 11, exemption is granted to TfGM and to the Contractor from the requirement in section 6 of the 1993 Act (prohibition on unauthorised operators of railway assets) to be authorised by licence to be the operator, as applicable, of the Metrolink network, a Metrolink depot, a Metrolink station and a train to the extent that it is used on the Metrolink network.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 1.4.2013, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/339/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:04:03.242742+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}