{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-2005/section-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-2005/section-58.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/14",
  "legislation_title": "Railways Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-2005",
  "path": "section/58",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "General interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“the 1993 Act” means the Railways Act 1993 (c. 43);\n“the 2000 Act” means the Transport Act 2000 (c. 38);\n“contravention” includes a failure to comply and cognate expressions are to be construed accordingly;\n“Wales-only service”, “Welsh component of a Welsh service” and “Welsh service” have the meanings given by section 57.\n(2) An expression which is given a meaning by any provision of the 1993 Act for the purpose either of that Act or of Part 1 of it has the same meaning in this Act as in that Act or (as the case may be) that Part.\n(3) In this Act a reference to an Integrated Transport Authority or a Passenger Transport Authority, to a Passenger Transport Executive or to an integrated transport area or a passenger transport area is a reference to the authority, executive or area which is such an Authority, Executive or area for the purposes of Part 2 of the Transport Act 1968 (c. 73).\n(4) For the purposes of this Act a company is wholly owned by a person at any time when it has no members other than one or more persons falling within the following paragraphs—\n(a) that person;\n(b) a company which is wholly owned by that person;\n(c) a person acting on behalf of that person or of such a company.\n(5) For the purposes of this Act a company is jointly owned by two or more persons (“the relevant persons”) at any time when (without being wholly owned by a person) it has no members other than two or more persons falling within the following paragraphs—\n(a) the relevant persons;\n(b) a company which is jointly owned by two or more of the relevant persons or which is wholly owned by one of them;\n(c) a person acting on behalf of one or more of the relevant persons or of such a company.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(1) inserted (13.6.2018) by The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (Railways) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/631), art. 1(2)(b)(xvi), Sch. para. 64"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(3) inserted (E.W.) (9.2.2009) by Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), s. 134(4), Sch. 4 para. 66(4)(a); S.I. 2009/107, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(3) inserted (E.W.) (9.2.2009) by Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), s. 134(4), Sch. 4 para. 66(4)(b); S.I. 2009/107, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 58(4)(5) applied (28.11.2024) by 1993 c. 43, s. 30C(2) (as inserted by Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024 (c. 25), ss. 2(3), 5(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 58 in force at 8.6.2005 by S.I. 2005/1444, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/14/section/58",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:07:26.795845+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}