{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993-consequential-modifications-no-2-order-1999/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993-consequential-modifications-no-2-order-1999/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1998",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways Act 1993 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993-consequential-modifications-no-2-order-1999",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984",
  "text": "(1) In section 6 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (stop and search powers:statutory undertakers etc.), after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection–\n“(1A) Without prejudice to any powers under subsection (1) above, a constable employed by the British Railways Board may stop, detain and search any vehicle before it leaves a goods area which is included in the premises of any successor of the British Railways Board and is used wholly or mainly for the purposes of a relevant undertaking.”.\n(2) In subsection (2) of that section at the end there shall be inserted “; and “successor of the British Railways Board” and “relevant undertaking” have the same meaning as in the Railways Act 1993 (Consequential Modifications) Order 1999.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1998/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:16:17.432820+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."
}