{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-clauses-consolidation-act-1845/section-88",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-clauses-consolidation-act-1845/section-88.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/8-9/20",
  "legislation_title": "Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-clauses-consolidation-act-1845",
  "path": "section/88",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "88",
  "heading": "Contracts not to affect persons not parties thereto.",
  "text": "Provided always, that no such contract as aforesaid shall in any manner alter, affect, increase, or diminish any of the tolls which the respective companies, parties to such contracts, shall for the time being be respectively authorized and entitled to demand or receive from any person or any other company, but that all other persons and companies shall, notwithstanding any such contract, be entitled to the use and benefit of any of the said railways, upon the same terms and conditions, and on payment of the same tolls, as they would have been in case no such contract had been entered into.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 88 incorporated (4.5.1991) by S.I. 1991/1162, art. 3(1)S. 88 incorporated (with modifications) (29.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1347, art. 4(1)(2) (with arts. 15, 37, 38(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 88 incorporated (with modifications) (22.3.2005) by Midland Metro (Wednesbury to Brierley Hill and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/927), art. 4(1)(2) (with art. 51)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 88 incorporated (with modifications) (E.W.) (22.7.2005) by Midland Metro (Birmingham City Centre Extension, etc.) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1794), arts. 1, 4 (with art. 47)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 88 incorporated (with modifications) (25.11.2005) by Docklands Light Railway (Capacity Enhancement) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3105), arts. 1, 4(1)(2) (with arts. 3(5), 15(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 88 incorporated (with modifications) (E.W.) (2.8.2016) by The Midland Metro (Wolverhampton City Centre Extension) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/684), arts. 1, 3 (with arts. 46, 47, Sch. 9 para. 4, Sch. 10 para. 12(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 88 incorporated (with modifications) (E.W.) (4.3.2020) by The Midland Metro (Birmingham Eastside Extension) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/141), arts. 1, 3 (with arts. 47, 48, Sch. 10 para. 19)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8-9/20/section/88",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:34:18.834843+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."
}