{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-heritage-act-1996/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-heritage-act-1996/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/42",
  "legislation_title": "Railway Heritage Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-heritage-act-1996",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Designation of records and artefacts.",
  "text": "(1) It shall be a function of the Board of Trustees—\n(a) to designate those records or artefacts, or those classes or descriptions of record or artefact, which in the opinion of the Board of Trustees are of sufficient interest to warrant preservation; and\n(b) to notify every body to which this Act applies of the records or artefacts, or the classes or descriptions of record or artefact, so designated.\n(2) The function conferred by paragraph (a) of subsection (1) above includes power to revoke or amend designations previously made; and paragraph (b) of that subsection shall be construed accordingly.\n(3) Subject to subsection (4) below, references in this section to records or artefacts are references to records kept, or artefacts made, for purposes connected with railways.\n(4) References in this section to records do not include references to records which are public records within the meaning of the Public Records Act 1958.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Railway Heritage Committee) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/64), arts. 1(2), 2(3)(b) (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1958 c. 51."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/42/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:54.501487+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."
}