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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993/schedule-5/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993/schedule-5/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/43",
  "legislation_title": "Railways Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Schedule, the appropriate Rail Passengers’ Committee, in relation to a proposed closure, is the Rail Passengers’ Committee for the area affected.\n(1A) In this Schedule “the area affected” means the area in which the station or line, or any part of the line, affected by the proposed closure is situated.\n(2) For the purposes of this Schedule, “railway” has its wider meaning.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 6(1) substituted (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 227, 275(1), Sch. 22 para. 14(a); S.I. 2001/57, art. 3(1), Sch. 2 Pt. I (subject to savings and transitional provisions in Sch. 2 Pt. II) (which S.I. is amended by S.I. 2001/115)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 6(1) substituted (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 38, s. 235(6); S.I. 2001/57, art. 3(1), Sch. 2 Pt. I (subject to savings and transitional provisions in Sch. 2 Pt. II)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 6(1A) inserted (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 38, s. 235(7); S.I. 2001/57, art. 3(1), Sch. 2 Pt. I (subject to savings and transitional provisions in Sch. 2 Pt. II)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:47.841849+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."
}