{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993-consequential-modifications-no-5-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993-consequential-modifications-no-5-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/420",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways Act 1993 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 5) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993-consequential-modifications-no-5-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "At the end of section 122 insert the following subsection —\n“(5) In sections 116 to 119 and 121 of this Act, and in this section,—\n(a) “network owner” means—\n(i) a person in whom is vested a network by virtue of a transfer scheme, or\n(ii) a successor in title to any such person;\n(b) “new network” means a network constructed or acquired, other than pursuant to a transfer scheme, after 31 March 1994 where any railway line comprised in that network is connected to a railway line comprised in a transferred network;\n(c) “transferred network” means a network transferred at any time by transfer scheme;\n(d) “network” and “transfer scheme” shall be construed in accordance with the Railways Act 1993; and\n(e) references to a highway are to be read, in relation to Scotland, as references to a road.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/420/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:46.293653+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."
}