{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1761",
  "legislation_title": "The Wirral Tramway Light Railway Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-light-railway-order-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TRANSPORT\nMade 30th June 1994\nComing into force 1st July 1994\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, on the application of the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, and in exercise of powers conferred by sections 3, 7 and 9 to 12 of the Light Railways Act 1896, and now vested in him, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1896 c. 48; section 3 was amended by the Light Railways Act 1912 (c. 19), section 5(1); sections 7 and 9 were repealed in part by the Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), section 86(2) and Schedule 9; section 10 was repealed in part by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986 (c. 12), Schedule 1; section 11 was amended by the Light Railways Act 1912, section 5(3), and the Railways Act 1921, section 73(1), and was repealed in part and further amended in respects not relevant to this Order; section 12 was repealed in part by the Finance Act 1929 (c. 21), section 6 and Schedule."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Railways Act 1921, section 68(1), and S.I. 1970/1681, 1979/571 and 1981/238."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1761/introduction",
    "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."
}