{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-regulations-1998/regulation-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-regulations-1998/regulation-30.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1340",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/30",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Offences outside the United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of determining whether a breach of the duty imposed by regulation 5 has occurred, it is immaterial that the relevant acts or omissions occurred outside the United Kingdom if, when they occurred, the person—\n(a) was a United Kingdom national, or\n(b) was a body incorporated under the law of any part of the United Kingdom, or\n(c) was a person (other than a United Kingdom national or such a body) maintaining a place of business in the United Kingdom.\n(2) In this regulation “United Kingdom national” means an individual who is—\n(a) a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British National (Overseas) or a British Overseas citizen;\n(b) a person who under the British Nationality Act 1981 is a British subject, or\n(c) a British protected person (within the meaning of that Act).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 61."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1340/regulation/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:29:29.254227+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."
}