{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-and-rail-traffic-act-1933/section-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-and-rail-traffic-act-1933/section-45.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/23-24/53",
  "legislation_title": "Road and Rail Traffic Act 1933",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-and-rail-traffic-act-1933",
  "path": "section/45",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part II.",
  "text": "In this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—\n“Carriageway” has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“Minister” means the Minister of Transport;\n“Public road” has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;\n“Railway” includes a light railway, not being a light railway which is laid wholly or mainly along a public carriage waythe carriageway of a public roadand is used wholly or mainly for the carriage of passengers;\n“Railway company” includes any person or body of persons whether incorporated or not, being the owner or owners or lessee or lessees of, or working, a railway;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definition inserted (S.) by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 28(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Transport Act 1962 (c. 46), Sch. 12 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Definition inserted (S.) by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 28(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words “the carriageway of a public road\" substituted (S.) for “a public carriageway\" by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 28(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/23-24/53/section/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:36:53.467667+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."
}