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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/peak-rail-light-railway-order-1990/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2350",
  "legislation_title": "The Peak Rail Light Railway Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/peak-rail-light-railway-order-1990",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Gauge of the Company’s railway and motive power",
  "text": "The Company’s railway shall be constructed and operated on a gauge of 1435 millimetres and the motive power shall be diesel or steam or internal combustion or such other motive power as the Secretary of State may approve:\nProvided that nothing in this Order shall authorise the Company to use electrical power as motive power on the Company’s railway unless such power is obtained from storage batteries or from a source of generation entirely contained in and carried along with the engines and carriages:\nProvided also that, if electrical power is used as motive power on the Company’s railway, such electrical power shall not be used in such a manner as to cause, or be likely to cause, any interference with any telecommunications apparatus (as defined in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984 or with telecommunication by means of such apparatus.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003"
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2350/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:56:55.644735+00:00"
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  "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."
}