{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-regulation-act-1840/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-regulation-act-1840/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/3-4/97",
  "legislation_title": "Railway Regulation Act 1840",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-regulation-act-1840",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for regulating Railways.\n[10th August 1840]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act excluded (1.7.1994) by S.I. 1994/1761, art. 3(3)Act excluded (11.11.1996) by S.I. 1996/2714, art. 3(5)Act excluded (21.5.1997) by S.I. 1997/1266, art. 3(5)Act excluded (27.8.1998) by S.I. 1998/1936, art. 3(5)Act excluded (30.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/1306, art. 3(3)Act excluded (21.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/2129, art. 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Short Title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1890 (c. 51)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (6.11.2013) by The Transport for Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Second City Crossing) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2587), arts. 1, 3(1) (with arts. 42, 43)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (9.1.2014) by The Ashton Vale to Temple Meads and Bristol City Centre Rapid Transit Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/3244), arts. 1, 3(1) (with arts. 57, 58, Sch. 11 para. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (24.11.2016) by The Transport for Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Trafford Park Extension) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/1035), art. 3(1) (with arts. 43, 44)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (4.1.2018) by The Blackpool Tramway (Blackpool North Extension) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/1214), art. 3(1) (with arts. 3(3), 58, 59)"
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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."
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