{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994.json",
  "id": "uksi/1994/1761",
  "title": "The Wirral Tramway Light Railway Order 1994",
  "short_title": "Wirral Tramway Light Railway 1994",
  "long_title": null,
  "citation": "S.I. 1994/1761",
  "type": "uksi",
  "year": "1994",
  "number": "1761",
  "version": "current",
  "date": "1994-06-30",
  "revised": false,
  "valid_from": null,
  "extent": null,
  "unapplied_effects": 9,
  "provisions": [
    {
      "path": "introduction",
      "kind": "introduction",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Introductory text",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/introduction",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/1",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "1",
      "heading": "Citation and commencement",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-1",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/2",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "2",
      "heading": "Interpretation",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-2",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/3",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "3",
      "heading": "Incorporation and application of enactments relating to railways",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-3",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/4",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "4",
      "heading": "Power to construct works",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-4",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/5",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "5",
      "heading": "Power to deviate",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-5",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/6",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "6",
      "heading": "Plans to be approved by Secretary of State before works commenced",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-6",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/7",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "7",
      "heading": "Power to keep apparatus in streets",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-7",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/8",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "8",
      "heading": "Power to execute street works",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-8",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/9",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "9",
      "heading": "Agreements with street authorities",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-9",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/10",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "10",
      "heading": "Mode of construction and operation of tramway",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-10",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/11",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "11",
      "heading": "Traffic control",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-11",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/12",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "12",
      "heading": "Restoration of streets if tramway discontinued",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-12",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/13",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "13",
      "heading": "Level crossings",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-13",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/14",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "14",
      "heading": "Provision of accommodation for apparatus",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-14",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/15",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "15",
      "heading": "Gauge of tramway and restrictions on working",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-15",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/16",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "16",
      "heading": "Temporary stopping up of streets",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-16",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/17",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "17",
      "heading": "Attachment of equipment to buildings for purposes of tramway",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-17",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/18",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "18",
      "heading": "Power to operate and use tramway system",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-18",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/19",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "19",
      "heading": "Power to charge fares",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-19",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/20",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "20",
      "heading": "For protection of telecommunications operators",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-20",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/21",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "21",
      "heading": "For protection of public electricity suppliers",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-21",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/22",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "22",
      "heading": "For protection of public gas suppliers",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-22",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/23",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "23",
      "heading": "Power to lop trees overhanging tramway",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-23",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/24",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "24",
      "heading": "Removal of obstructions",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-24",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/25",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "25",
      "heading": "Tramcars on tramway deemed public service vehicles",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-25",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/26",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "26",
      "heading": "Power to lease tramway system",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-26",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/27",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "27",
      "heading": "Power to contract for police services",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/article-27",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "signature",
      "kind": "signature",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Signature",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/signature",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/1",
      "kind": "schedule",
      "number": "1",
      "heading": "SCHEDULED WORKS",
      "url": null,
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/1/part",
      "kind": "part",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "DESCRIPTION OF WORKS SPECIFICALLY AUTHORISED",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/schedule-1/part",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": "schedule/1"
    },
    {
      "path": "schedule/2",
      "kind": "schedule",
      "number": "2",
      "heading": "TRAMWAY CROSSINGS IN STREETS",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/schedule-2",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    }
  ],
  "has_text": true,
  "pdfs": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "referred to",
      "affected_provisions": "Act",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1306",
      "affecting_title": "The Wirral Tramway Order 1999",
      "affecting_provisions": "art.22(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 2",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2155",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 2 Table 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 20",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2155",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 18(a)-(e) table"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 20(a)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2155",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 2 Table 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 20 heading",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 14(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 20",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 14(2)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 20",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 14(2)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 20(a)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 14(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "art. 20(b)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 14(2)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "made_under": [
    {
      "id": "ukpga/1896/48",
      "title": null,
      "url": null,
      "provisions": [
        "section/3",
        "section/7",
        "section/9",
        "section/10",
        "section/11",
        "section/12"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "changes_made_to": 9,
  "changes_made_to_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/changes.json",
  "changes_made_by": 0,
  "changes_made_by_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/changes/by-it.json",
  "instruments_made_under": 0,
  "instruments_made_under_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/instruments.json",
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1761",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:04.565275+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."
}