{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/yorkshire-dales-light-railway-order-1991/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/yorkshire-dales-light-railway-order-1991/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1111",
  "legislation_title": "The Yorkshire Dales Light Railway Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/yorkshire-dales-light-railway-order-1991",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the followingexpressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned tothem—\n“the Act of 1845” means the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845;\n“the Board” means the British Railways Board;\n“the former railway” means the railway or former railway of the Board described in theSchedule to this Order together with all lands and works relatingthereto;\n“the Company” means the Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust (Holdings) Limitedincorporated under the Companies Act 1948 and having its registeredoffice at Albion House, Rope Walk, Otley Street, Skipton, NorthYorkshire;\n“the Order of 1987” means the Yorkshire Dales Light Railway Order 1987();\n“the principal Act” means the Light Railways Act 1896; and\n“the railway” means the railway authorised to be constructed, made and maintainedpursuant to article 5 of this Order together with all lands and worksrelating thereto and, where any part of the said railway and worksremains uncompleted, includes the site of that part.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1845 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1948 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1088."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1111/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}