{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-regulations-1999/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-regulations-1999/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2244",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway Safety Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-regulations-1999",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule–\n“carriageway” has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980 or in Scotland, the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;\n“street” means–\n(a) in England and Wales, a street within the meaning of section 48 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, together with land on the verge of a street or between two carriageways;\n(b) in Scotland, a road within the meaning of section 107 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, together with land on the verge of a road or between two carriageways;\n“tramway” means a system of transport used wholly or mainly for the carriage of passengers and employing parallel rails which–\n(a) provide support and guidance for vehicles carried on flanged wheels;\n(b) are laid wholly or mainly along a street or in any other place to which the public has access (including a place to which the public has access only on making a payment);\n“vehicle” includes a mobile traction unit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1991 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/599",
      "affecting_title": "The Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2244/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:07:46.935992+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."
}