{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-tynedale-railway-light-railway-order-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-tynedale-railway-light-railway-order-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1829",
  "legislation_title": "The South Tynedale Railway (Light Railway) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-tynedale-railway-light-railway-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) 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 Schedule 1 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 Northumberland 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 railway” means the railway authorised to be constructed and maintained by the undertakers 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;\n“the undertakers” means the Council or, during the currency of the term created by the lease, the Company.\n(2) All directions, distances and reference points stated in any description of works, powers or lands shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after any such direction, distance and reference point.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1829/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:39:06.811864+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."
}