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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993-commencement-no-1-order-1993/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3237",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways Act 1993 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993-commencement-no-1-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the Railways Act 1993 shall come into force on 24th December 1993:\nin section 4, subsections (1), (3) and (7), for the purposes of the functions of the Secretary of State under section 33; and subsection (9) for the purposes of the definitions of “environment” and “through ticket”;\nsection 32;\nsection 33;\nsection 81;\nsection 82;\nin section 83, subsection (1) for the purposes of the definitions of “goods”, “light maintenance services”, “locomotive”, “network”, “network services”, “premises”, “passenger service operator”, “railway”, “railway services”, “railway vehicle”, “rolling stock”, “station”, “station services”, “track”, “train” and “vehicle”; and subsection (2);\nsections 142 to 144;\nsection 145(1) to (6), except for the purposes of subsections (5)(a) and (5)(b)\n(i) ;\nsections 146 to 149;\nsection 150(1) to (3);\nin section 151, subsection (1) for the purposes of the definitions of “the Board”, “body corporate”, “company”, “contravention”, “the Franchising Director”, “functions”, “local authority”, “the Monopolies Commission”, “notice”, “the Regulator”, “subsidiary” and “wholly owned subsidiary”; and subsection (5);\nsection 154.\n(2) The following provisions of that Act shall come into force on 6th January 1994: section 6(2);\nsection 23(3) and (4);\nsection 25(1) and (2), for the purpose of providing a definition of “public sector operator”;\nsection 29(8);\nsection 83(1) for the purposes of the definitions of “additional railway asset”, “the Director”, “franchise agreement”, “franchise operator”, “franchise term”, “franchised services”, “franchisee”, “information”, “licence” and “licence holder”, “light maintenance depot”, “operator”, “passenger licence”, “private sector operator”, “public sector operator”, “railway asset”, “railway passenger service”, “records” and “station licence”;\nsection 84;\nsection 85;\nin section 87, subsection (1) for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of State to transfer functions to himself, and subsections (2) and (5);\nsections 88 to 92;\nsection 93, except subsection (3)(b);\nsections 94 to 116;\nsections 126 to 128;\nsection 130;\nsection 131;\nin section 134, subsection (1) for the purpose of bringing into force the provisions of Schedule 11 referred to below, and subsections (2) and (3);\nsection 141, except subsection (1)(a);\nsection 151, so far as not brought into force by paragraph (1) above;\nsection 152(1) and (3), for the purpose of bringing into force the provisions of Schedules 12 and 14 referred to below;\nsection 153;\nSchedule 8;\nSchedule 9;\nin Schedule 11, paragraphs 1 to 8, 9(1) and (2), 9(3) for the purpose of inserting section 52D(6), (7) and (8) in the Transport Act 1980, 9(4), 10 and 12 to 14;\nin Schedule 12, paragraphs 4, 5, 6(1) to (5) and (7), 7, 8, 10 to 13, 14(1) to (3), 23, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 31;\nin Schedule 14, the repeals relating to:\nsection 43 of the British Transport Commission Act 1950;\nsections 4(1)(b), (2) and (7), 5, 13(3) and 53 of the Transport Act 1962;\nsections 42(3) to (5) and (6)(b), 45 and 50(2) and 137(1)(a) of the Transport Act 1968).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1950 c.liii."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1962 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1968 c. 73."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
}