{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manchester-liverpool-road-castlefield-properties-limited-light-railway-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manchester-liverpool-road-castlefield-properties-limited-light-railway-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2153",
  "legislation_title": "The Manchester, Liverpool Road (Castlefield Properties Limited) Light Railway Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manchester-liverpool-road-castlefield-properties-limited-light-railway-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—\n“the Board” means the British Railways Board;\n“the Board’s railways” means the railways or former railways of the Board described in the Schedule to this Order and shown on the deposited plan and the lands and works so described;\n“the Company” means Castlefield Properties Limited incorporated under the Companies Act 1985 and having its registered office at 36 Golden Square, London W1R 4AH;\n“the deposited plan” means the plan deposited in respect of the application for this Order with the Secretary of State for Transport;\n“the lease” means the lease of the Board’s railways granted by the Board to the Company on 30th March 1990, any extension of the same or any new lease of the Board’s railways granted by the Board to the Company;\n“the principal Act” means the Light Railways Act 1896;\n“the railway” means the railway authorised to be constructed, made and maintained by the Company pursuant to article 5 of this Order.\n(2) In this Order, all distances, lengths, measurements and directions stated in any description of works, powers or lands shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after each such distance, length, measurement and direction, and distances between points on a railway shall be taken to be measured along the railway.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2153/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:51:26.963109+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."
}