{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-transport-safety-act-2003-commencement-no-2-order-2004/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-transport-safety-act-2003-commencement-no-2-order-2004/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/827",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-transport-safety-act-2003-commencement-no-2-order-2004",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2003 Act shall come into force on 5th July 2004—\n(a) section 15 (establishment);\n(b) section 16 (transfer of functions);\n(c) section 17 (extent);\n(d) section 116 (Schedules 1 and 4: sequestration, &c. in Scotland) for the purposes relating to a person becoming liable to dismissal under paragraph 2 (d) of Schedule 1;\n(e) section 118 (repeals) so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedule 8 brought into force by paragraph (i);\n(f) Schedule 1 (Office of Rail Regulation);\n(g) Schedule 2 (abolition of Rail Regulator: consequential amendments);\n(h) Schedule 3 (abolition of Rail Regulator: savings, &c.); and\n(i) Schedule 8 (repeals), so far as it relates to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975, sections 15(4A), 15C(3), 21(5), 57B, 74(8), 151(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Railways Act 1993 and section 251(2) of, and paragraph 45 of Schedule 27 to, the Transport Act 2000 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 43"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2000 c. 38"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/827/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:29:03.592595+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."
}