{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-and-works-guided-transport-modes-order-1992/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3231",
  "legislation_title": "The Transport and Works (Guided Transport Modes) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-and-works-guided-transport-modes-order-1992",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“aerial cableway” means a mode in which the vehicles are supported and guided by means of a cable, but does not include a funicular railway or a lift;\n“lift” means a mode in which the vehicle—\n(a) is moved wholly or partly between guides which are vertical or inclined at an angle of less than 15 degrees to the vertical; and\n(b) provides direct access at more than one level to a street;\n“magnetic levitation” means a mode in which the vehicles are supported and guided wholly or mainly by means of magnetic force;\n“monorail” means a mode in which the vehicles are supported and guided wholly or mainly by means of a single rail or beam;\n“road-based with cable guidance” means a mode in which the vehicles—\n(a) are capable of operating on a road; and\n(b) are guided wholly or mainly by means of a cable, wire or other device which is not in direct physical contact with the vehicles;\n“road-based with rail guidance” means a mode in which the vehicles—\n(a) are capable of operating on a road; and\n(b) are guided wholly or mainly by means of a single rail or slot;\n“road-based with side guidance” means a mode in which the vehicles—\n(a) are capable of operating on a road; and\n(b) are guided wholly or mainly by means of wheels bearing outwards against fixed apparatus; and\n“track-based with side guidance” means a mode in which the vehicles—\n(a) are supported by means of a track or other structure not being a road; and\n(b) are guided wholly or mainly by means of wheels bearing outwards against fixed apparatus.\n(2) In this Order, references to “mode” are to be construed as a mode of guided transport which employs vehicles used wholly or mainly for the carriage of passengers and “road” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 27."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1951",
      "affecting_title": "The Transport and Works (Guided Transport Modes) (Amendment) Order 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/1380",
      "affecting_title": "The Transport and Works (Guided Transport Modes) (Amendment) Order 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/1380",
      "affecting_title": "The Transport and Works (Guided Transport Modes) (Amendment) Order 2022"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3231/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:08:21.285649+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."
}