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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993-consequential-modifications-no-2-order-1999/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1998",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways Act 1993 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993-consequential-modifications-no-2-order-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the British Transport Commission Act 1949",
  "text": "(1) In the provisions of the British Transport Commission Act 1949 mentioned in paragraph (2), references to any of the Boards and to any wholly owned subsidiary of any of the Boards shall include references to any successor of the British Railways Board (but not to a subsidiary of such a successor unless it is itself such a successor).\n(2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are–\nsection 54 (powers of police as to search and arrest);\nsection 55 (trespass on railways etc);\nsection 56 (stone throwing on railway); and\nsection 57 (rights of way over roads, footpaths etc.).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1949 c. xxix: sections 54 to 57 were modified by the Transport Act 1962 (1962 c. 46), section 32(1) and Schedule 2, Part III and the Transport Act 1968 (1968 c. 73), section 156 and Schedule 16. Section 54(3) was repealed by section 7(2)(b) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (1984 c. 60)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1998/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:16:17.432820+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."
}