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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-regulation-act-1842/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/5-6/55",
  "legislation_title": "Railway Regulation Act 1842",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-regulation-act-1842",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for the better Regulation of Railways and for the Conveyance of Troops.\n[30th July 1842]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act excluded (11.11.1996) by S.I. 1996/2714, art. 3(5)Act excluded (21.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/2382, art. 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Preamble, which recites Railway Regulation Act 1840 (c. 97), omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1890 (c. 51)"
    },
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
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      "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), art. 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), art. 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Act excluded (E.W.S.) (2.8.2023) by The Rother Valley Railway (Bodiam to Robertsbridge Junction) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/815), arts. 1, 15(6)(b) (with art. 42)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
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      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent."
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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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