{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861/section-34.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/24-25/100",
  "legislation_title": "Offences against the Person Act 1861",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offences-against-the-person-act-1861",
  "path": "section/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Doing or omitting anything to endanger passengers by railway.",
  "text": "Whosoever, by any unlawful act, or by any wilful omission or neglect, shall endanger or cause to be endangered the safety of any person conveyed or being in or upon a railway, or shall aid or assist therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words omitted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 34 excluded (27.8.1998) by S.I. 1998/1936, art. 3(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 32-34 applied (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (18.5.2009) by Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Media City Extension) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1100), arts. 1, 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 32-34 applied (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (9.6.2009) by Nottingham Express Transit System Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1300), arts. 1, 3(3) (with Sch. 13 para. 14(2), Sch. 14 para. 19, Sch. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 16, 20, 26, 27, 34, 36, 38, 47, 57, 60 amended as to mode of trial by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), Sch. 1 para. 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/section/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:09:26.210595+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."
}