{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-transport-safety-act-2003/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-transport-safety-act-2003/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/20",
  "legislation_title": "Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-transport-safety-act-2003",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "The British Transport Police Authority",
  "text": "(1) There shall be a body corporate to be known as the British Transport Police Authority.\n(2) Schedule 4 (which makes provision about the Authority) shall have effect.\n(3) In this Part “the Authority” means the British Transport Police Authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 18 in force at 1.7.2004 by S.I. 2004/1572, art. 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/20/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:20.260952+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."
}