{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/kinneil-and-manuel-light-railway-order-1988/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/kinneil-and-manuel-light-railway-order-1988/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/725",
  "legislation_title": "The Kinneil and Manuel Light Railway Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/kinneil-and-manuel-light-railway-order-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order unless the context otherwise requires the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:\n“the Board” means the British Railways Board;\n“the Board’s railways” means those parts of the railways or former railways of the Board described as Railway No. 1, Railway No. 2 and Railway No. 3 respectively in the Schedule hereto including all lands and works relating thereto;\n“the Company” means The Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway Company Limited incorporated under the Companies Act 1948 and having its Registered Office at 57 Queen Street, Edinburgh.\n“the Company’s railways” means the railways authorised to be constructed and maintained by the Company in accordance with article 4 of this Order and any parts of the Board’s railways vested in the Company by virtue of an agreement made in accordance with article 3(1) of this Order;\n“the enabling Acts” means the Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway Act 1846 as amended by the Monkland Railways (Slamannan and Borrowstounness Deviation) Act 1851;\n“the Principal Act” means the Light Railways Acts 1896 and 1912 as amended by the Railways Act 1921;\n“Railway No. 1” means the Railway No. 1 described in the Schedule hereto;\n“Railway No. 2” means the Railway No. 2 described in the Schedule hereto;\n“Railway No. 3” means the Railway No. 3 described in the Schedule hereto;\n“Railway No. 4” means the Railway No. 4 described in the Schedule hereto;\n“the Society” means The Scottish Railway Preservation Society incorporated under the Companies Act 1948 and having its Registered Office at 57 Queen Street, Edinburgh;\n“transfer date” means the day on which the Board’s railways or any part thereof is vested in the Company by virtue of an agreement under article 3(1) of this Order.\nReferences in this Order to reference points shall be construed as references to National Grid reference points.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1948 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1846 c.cvii."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1851 c.clxii."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/725/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:07:44.390949+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."
}