{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-clauses-consolidation-act-1845/section-131",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-clauses-consolidation-act-1845/section-131.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/8-9/16",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-clauses-consolidation-act-1845",
  "path": "section/131",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "131",
  "heading": "Board of Trade empowered to appoint an umpire, on neglect of the arbitrators, in case of railway companies.",
  "text": "If in either of the cases aforesaid the said arbitrators shall refuse, or shall for seven days after request of either party to such arbitration neglect to appoint an umpire, it shall be lawful for the Board of Trade, if they think fit, in any case in which a railway company shall be one party to the arbitration, on the application of either party to such arbitration, to appoint an umpire; and the decision of such umpire on the matters on which the arbitrators shall differ shall be final.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of Board of Trade now exercisable concurrently by Secretary of State: S.I. 1970/1537, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8-9/16/section/131",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:34:21.564980+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."
}