{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/military-tramways-act-1887-repealed-111993/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/military-tramways-act-1887-repealed-111993/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/50-51/65",
  "legislation_title": "Military Tramways Act 1887 (repealed 1.1.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/military-tramways-act-1887-repealed-111993",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "As to use of tramways.",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may work and use the tramways and may use on the tramways carriages with flange wheels or wheels suitable only to run on the rail prescribed by the Provisional Order; and, subject to the provisions of the Provisional Order and of this Act, the Secretary of State shall have the exclusive use of the tramways for carriages with flange wheels or other wheels suitable only to run on the rail so prescribed.\nAll carriages used on any tramway shall be moved by the power prescribed by the Provisional Order; and where no such power is prescribed by animal power only. Whenever the Provisional Order authorises the use of electricity as a motive power, or otherwise, in connexion with any tramway, such provisions shall be inserted in the Provisional Order as are proper for the protection of any telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the purposes of a telecommunications code system or the service provided by any such system.\nIf any person, except under the authority of a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under this Act, uses any of the tramways or any part thereof with carriages having flange wheels or other wheels suitable only to run on the rail of such tramway, such person shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 109(1)(4), Sch. 4 para. 7, Sch. 5 para. 45"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/50-51/65/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:23.401002+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."
}