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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-byelaws-amendment-order-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1258",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway Byelaws Amendment Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-byelaws-amendment-order-2025",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Railway Byelaws which were made by the Strategic Rail Authority in 2005 under section 219 of and Schedule 20 to the Transport Act 2000.\nArticle 4 amends Byelaw 3, to make it an offence to use ‘electronic cigarettes’ as well as lit cigarettes and other lit items on railway premises.\nArticle 11 amends Byelaw 14, separating the provisions applying in England and Wales from those applying in Scotland. Bylaw 14A, which applies in England and Wales, clarifies that that these Byelaws do not impose liability for station car parking which are subject to a contractual arrangement.\nByelaw 14A(5) adds to the circumstances when a vehicle can be removed and stored in England and Wales by including circumstances in which the vehicle owner may not be at fault but the vehicle nevertheless needs to be moved. Byelaw 14B maintains the current regime in relation to Scotland.\nArticle 19 replaces “penalty” with “fine” to make it clear that this refers to a criminal, not a contractual penalty.\nArticle 20 amends the definition of “Operator” to make it clear that it includes successor organisations of the operators listed in Schedule One.\nArticles 3, 5 to 10, and 12 to 20 amend the Byelaws to replace any gendered language with gender neutral terms. As a consequence, Byelaw 25(4), which provided that words importing one gender shall include the other gender, has been removed.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no significant impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen. An explanatory memorandum has not been produced for this instrument as this instrument is not subject to Parliamentary Procedure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1258/note",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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