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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-employment-prevention-of-accidents-act-1900/section-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/63-64/27",
  "legislation_title": "Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents) Act 1900",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-employment-prevention-of-accidents-act-1900",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Power to make an order or give a direction in place of a rule.",
  "text": "Where, in the opinion of the Board of Trade, the requirements of the case would be better met by a specific order or direction than by a general rule, the Board of Trade may make such an order or direction in the same manner as they may make a rule under this Act, and subject to the same provisions, and the provisions of this and any other Act shall apply as if the order or direction were a rule under this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/63-64/27/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:26:06.462840+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."
}