{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mid-suffolk-light-railway-order-2025/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mid-suffolk-light-railway-order-2025/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/332",
  "legislation_title": "The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mid-suffolk-light-railway-order-2025",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the Company” means Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Company, a private company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales under company number 03244631 (charity number 1063635), whose registered office is at Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Museum, Brockford Station, Wetheringsett, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 5PW;\n“the deposited plan” means the plan certified by the Secretary of State as the deposited plan for the purpose of this Order;\n“the deposited sections” mean the sections certified by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Order;\n“footpath” has the same meaning as in section 329(1) (further provision as to interpretation) of the Highways Act 1980;\n“the level crossing” means the point at which the railway crosses Public Footpath 46 in the parish of Wetheringsett cum Brockford, in the County of Suffolk as shown between points X and Y on the deposited plan;\n“maintain” includes inspect, repair, adjust, alter, remove, reconstruct and replace, and “maintenance” is construed accordingly;\n“protective equipment” includes gates, barriers, lights, traffic signs (within the meaning of section 64 (general provisions as to traffic signs) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984) and manual, mechanical, automatic, electronic or telephonic equipment or other devices;\n“the railway” means the railway described in the Schedule together with all land and works relating to it; and\n“the undertaker” means the Company and following any sale or lease under article 6 (transfer of railway by undertaker), this expression means or includes the transferee within the meaning of that article.\n(2) All distances, directions and lengths stated in the description of the railway are approximate and distances between points on the railway shall be taken to be measured along the railway.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 27. Section 64 was amended by paragraph 25(3) of Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54) and paragraph 47 of Schedule 8 to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22). There are other amendments to section 64 that are not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/332/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:18:45.652243+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."
}