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5.—(1) The undertaker may operate and use the railways as a system, or part of a system, of transport for the carriage of passengers and goods.
(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), the motive power to be used on the railways shall be steam, diesel-electric, diesel, internal combustion, electric-battery or such other motive power as the Secretary of State may, in writing, approve.
(3) Nothing in this Order shall authorise the use of electric power as motive power on the railways unless such power is obtained from storage batteries or from a source of generation entirely contained in, and carried along with, the engines and carriages.
(4) If electrical power is used as motive power on the railways, such electrical power shall not be used in such a manner as to cause, or be likely to cause, any interference with any electronic communications apparatus or with the use of such apparatus.
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