{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-railways-act-1871/section-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/34-35/78",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation of Railways Act 1871",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-railways-act-1871",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Extension of 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55. ss. 4 to 6 to new works.",
  "text": "The provisions of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1842, and the Acts amending the same, with respect to the opening of any railway, shall extend to the opening of any additional line of railway, deviation line, station, junction, or crossing on the level which forms a portion of or is directly connected with a railway on which passengers are conveyed, and has been constructed subsequently to the inspection of such railway on behalf of the Board of Trade previous to the original opening of such railway:\nProvided always, that the Board of Trade may, with respect to any of the works in this section mentioned, from time to time upon the application of any railway company dispense with any notice which, under the provisions of the said Acts, is required to be given to the Board of Trade previous to opening any railway.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (E.W.S.) (10.5.1997) by S.I. 1997/553, reg. 12(1), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 5 repealed (E.W.S.) by Road and Rail Traffic Act 1933 (c. 53), Sch. 3; and s. 5 repealed (N.I.) (prosp.) by 2002 c. 8 (N.I.), ss. 7, 8(2), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nia/2002/8",
      "affecting_title": "Railway Safety Act (Northern Ireland) 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/34-35/78/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:53:11.168012+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."
}