{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/light-railways-act-1912/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/light-railways-act-1912/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/2-3/19",
  "legislation_title": "Light Railways Act 1912",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/light-railways-act-1912",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Power of Board of Trade to submit order to Parliament.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) If, while a bill confirming any such order is pending in either House of Parliament, a petition is presented against the Order, the Bill, so far as it relates to the Order, may be referred to a Select Committee, or if the two Houses of Parliament think fit so to order, to a Joint Committee of both Houses, and the petitioner shall be allowed to appear and oppose as in the case of Private Bills.\n(3) On bringing in a Bill under this section for the confirmation of an Order, the Board of Trade shall make a special report to Parliament with respect to the Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1(1), 2, 3 repealed by Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), Sch. 9 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/2-3/19/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:10:31.988045+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."
}