{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993/section-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/43",
  "legislation_title": "Railways Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-1993",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Exclusion of liability for breach of statutory duty.",
  "text": "(1) The obligations of the Secretary of State and of the Welsh Ministers and of the Scottish Ministers, so far as imposed by or under any provision of this Part—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) to secure the provision of any services, or\n(d) to secure the operation of any additional railway asset,\nshall not give rise to any form of duty or liability enforceable by civil proceedings for breach of statutory duty.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 50(1) substituted (1.12.2006) by Railways Act 2005 (c. 14), ss. 54, 60, Sch. 11 para. 5; S.I. 2006/2911, art. 2, Sch. (subject to the transitional and saving provisions in arts. 3-7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 50(1) inserted (14.10.2018 at 2.00 a.m.) by The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (Railways) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/631), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 50(1)(a)(2) repealed (1.12.2006) by Railways Act 2005 (c. 14), ss. 59, 60, Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with s. 14(4)(5), Sch. 11 para. 11(2)); S.I. 2006/2911, art. 2, Sch. (subject to the transitional and saving provisions in arts. 3-7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 50(1)(b) repealed (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 38, s. 274, Sch. 31 Pt. IV; S.I. 2001/57, art. 3(1), Sch. 2 Pt. I (subject to savings and transitional provisions in Sch. 2 Pt. II)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 50 excluded (21.7.1994) by 1994 c. xv, s. 17(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/43/section/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:47.841849+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."
}