{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-clauses-act-1863/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-clauses-act-1863/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/26-27/92",
  "legislation_title": "Railways Clauses Act 1863",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-clauses-act-1863",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application of Part I, and interpretation of terms.",
  "text": "This part of this Act shall apply to the railway authorized to be constructed by any special Act hereafter passed and incorporating this part of this Act.\nIn this part of this Act—\nAll terms used have the same meanings as the same terms have when used in the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, and the Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845, respectively:\nThe term “tidal river” means any part of a river within the flow and ebb of the tide at ordinary spring tides:\nThe term “tidal water” means any part of the sea or any part of a river within the flow and ebb of the tide at ordinary spring tides:\nThe term “tidal lands” means such parts of the bed, shore, or banks of a tidal water as are covered and uncovered by the flow and ebb of the tide at ordinary spring tides.\nThe provisions respecting the recovery of penalties contained in the said Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts respectively, as the case may require, shall be incorporated with this part of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1845 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1845 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 3-5, 12 incorporated (with modifications) (29.4.1992) by S.I. 1992/1113, art. 3(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/26-27/92/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:06:23.000031+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."
}