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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merseyrail-electrics-network-order-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1946",
  "legislation_title": "The Merseyrail Electrics Network Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merseyrail-electrics-network-order-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order relates to the Merseyrail Electrics railway network (“the network”).\nArticle 3 exempts railway passenger services provided exclusively on the network from the requirement in section 23 of the Railways Act 1993 to be subject to franchise agreements; and article 4 disapplies, in relation to the network, the following sections of that Act—\nsection 37 which regulates the discontinuance of non-franchised and other railway passenger services;\nsection 39 which regulates the closure of operational passenger networks; and\nsection 41 which regulates the closure of stations and light maintenance depots used in connection with railway passenger services.\nArticle 5 applies to the network the provisions of Schedule 5 to the 1993 Act, which establishes an alternative procedure for regulating the discontinuance of railway passenger services.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1946/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:51:50.300418+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."
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