{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-passenger-transport-act-1933/section-85",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/23-24/14",
  "legislation_title": "London Passenger Transport Act 1933",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-passenger-transport-act-1933",
  "path": "section/85",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Pending proceedings and existing contracts.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, all contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements, and other instruments, and all working arrangements subsisting immediately before the appointed day, and affecting the undertakers of any undertaking specified in Parts I, II, III or VI of the Second Schedule to this Act shall, in so far as they relate to that undertaking, be of as full force and effect against or in favour of the Executive, and may be enforced as fully and effectually as if, instead of the undertakers, the Executive had been a party thereto:\nProvided that nothing in this section—\n(a) shall apply to any contract the liability under which is by virtue of Part VII . . . of this Act to remain a liability of the undertakers; or\n(b) shall affect any proceeding, cause of action, contract, deed, bond, agreement or other instrument relating solely to any part of an undertaking which is not transferred to the Executive by this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 81(2), 82–84, 85(1), 87, 90, 91 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1960 (c. 56)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Transport Act 1962 (c. 46), Sch. 2 Pt. I and Transport (London) Act 1969 (c. 35), Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(2)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1960 (c. 56)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/23-24/14/section/85",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:37:22.793845+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."
}