{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-tynedale-railway-light-railway-order-1987/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-tynedale-railway-light-railway-order-1987/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1984",
  "legislation_title": "The South Tynedale Railway (Light Railway) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-tynedale-railway-light-railway-order-1987",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them—\n“the Board” means the British Railways Board;\n“the Board’s railway” means the railway or former railway of the Board described in the Schedule to this Order together with all lands and works relating thereto;\n“the Company” means the South Tynedale Railway Preservation Society incorporated under the Companies Acts 1948 and 1981 and having its registered office at the Railway Station, Alston, Cumbria;\n“the Council” means the Cumbria County Council;\n“the lease” means any lease granted under paragraph (1) of article 6 (Leasing of railway to Company) of this Order, any extension of the same or any new lease granted under any statutory powers or provisions;\n“the operators” means the Council or, during the currency of the term created by the lease, the Company;\n“the principal Act” means the Light Railways Acts 1896 and 1912, as amended by the Railways Act 1921;\n“the railway” means the railway authorised to be constructed, made and maintained by the operators pursuant to article 5 of this Order together with all lands and works relating thereto and, where any part of the said railway and works remains uncompleted, includes the site of that part.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1984/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:35.288654+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."
}