{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-for-greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-miscellaneous-provisions-order-2013/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1030",
  "legislation_title": "The Transport for Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-for-greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-miscellaneous-provisions-order-2013",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1988 Act” means the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Act 1988;\n“later LRTS Acts” means—\n(a) the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (No.2) Act 1988;\n(b) the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Act 1990;\n(c) the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (No.2) Act 1990;\n(d) the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Act 1991;\n(e) the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Act 1992; and\n(f) the Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Act 1994;\n“road” means any highway or other road to which the public has access;\n“the undertaker” means Transport for Greater Manchester, being the passenger transport executive established by the South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire Passenger Transport Area (Designation) Order 1969; and\n“the undertaking” means the transit system undertaking of the undertaker.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. i."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1988 c. ii."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1990 c. xv."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1990 c. xxiii."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1991 c. xvi."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1992 c. xviii."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1994 c. vi."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.I. 1969/25, amended by S.I. 1973/1727. By virtue of S.I. 2011/908 the passenger transport executive established by S.I. 1969/25 was renamed Transport for Greater Manchester."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1030/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:04.245245+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."
}