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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provision-order-1994/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/571",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways Act 1993 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provision) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provision-order-1994",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act shall come into force on 21st March 1994:\nsection 4, so far as not already in force;\nsection 5;\nsection 52;\nin section 54, subsection (2), and subsection (3) for the purposes of the definitions of “franchising functions”, in relation to the Franchising Director, and “railway investment”;\nsection 138.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/571/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:38:57.092028+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."
}