{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-rolling-stock-protection-act-1872/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-rolling-stock-protection-act-1872/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/35-36/50",
  "legislation_title": "Railway Rolling Stock Protection Act 1872",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-rolling-stock-protection-act-1872",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation of terms.",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“Rolling stock” includes waggons, trucks, carriages of all kinds, and locomotive engines used on railways:\n“Rent” includes royalty or other reservation in the nature of rent:\n“Work” includes any colliery, quarry, mine, manufactory, warehouse, wharf, pier, or jetty, in or on which is any railway siding:\n“Tenant” includes a lessee, sub-lessee, or other person having an interest in a work under a lease or agreement, or by use and occupation, or being otherwise liable to pay rent in respect of a work:\n“Person” includes a body corporate:\n“Court of summary jurisdiction” means any justices of the peace, . . . stipendary magistrate, sheriff principal, sheriff, or other magistrate or officer, by whatever name called, who is capable of exercising jurisdiction in summary proceedings for the recovery of penalties.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2: words in the definition of “Court of summary jurisdiction” repealed (31.8.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 78, Sch. 15 Pt. V(3) (with s. 107, Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2000/1920, art. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), s. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/35-36/50/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:52:04.359563+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."
}