{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-rail-link-act-1996/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-rail-link-act-1996/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/61",
  "legislation_title": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-rail-link-act-1996",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Closures.",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Railways Act 1993—\nsection 38 (proposals to discontinue franchised etc. passenger services), and\nsection 48(3) (duties in relation to discontinuation of certain experimental passenger services),\nshall not have effect in relation to services which involve travel on the rail link.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 18 extended (22.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1451, art. 7(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/61/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:26.800440+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."
}