{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-entertainment-resort-complex-bedford-special-development-no-2-order-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-74",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1322",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Entertainment Resort Complex, Bedford) Special Development (No. 2) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-entertainment-resort-complex-bedford-special-development-no-2-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/74",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Wixams station (bus replacement service)",
  "text": "(1) Grand Opening must not take place unless Wixams station is open to the public and scheduled rail services are stopping at it, unless—\n(a) the site controller has submitted for the Secretary of State’s approval an alternative temporary bus scheme to deliver visitors to the ERC from another railway station on the Midland Main Line, and\n(b) the Secretary of State has endorsed the scheme.\n(2) The Secretary of State must not decide to endorse a scheme submitted under sub-paragraph (1)(a), or a modification of such a scheme after it has been endorsed, unless—\n(a) the Secretary of State is satisfied that that decision meets the condition specified in article 7(7) (modification of reference documents, controlling documents and endorsement conditions),\n(b) having regard to the progress made in designing and delivering the permanent Wixams station facilities and services, the Secretary of State considers that the alternative temporary bus scheme would be a temporary measure, and\n(c) the endorsement is, or, in the case of an endorsement of a modification, remains, subject to an endorsement condition specifying the date by which ERC operations must cease unless Wixams station is open for public use as described in sub-paragraph (1) by that date.\n(3) If the Secretary of State has endorsed an alternative temporary bus scheme, it must operate until Wixams station is open for public use as described in sub-paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1322/schedule/3/paragraph/74",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:08:22.499243+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."
}