{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/peak-rail-light-railway-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/peak-rail-light-railway-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1083",
  "legislation_title": "The Peak Rail Light Railway Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/peak-rail-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 Company” means Peak Rail plc, a company incorporated under the Companies Act 1985 and having its registered office at Matlock Station, Matlock, Derbyshire;\n“the District Council” means the Derbyshire Dales District Council;\n“the County Council” means the Derbyshire County Council;\n“the Company’s Railway” means the railway authorised to be constructed, made and maintained by the Company pursuant to Article 4 of this Order;\n“the former railway” means the former railway of the board described in Schedule 1 to this Order and includes all the lands and works relating thereto;\n“the principal Act” means the Light Railways Act 1896.\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 the 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/1993/1083/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:58:09.399007+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."
}