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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-railways-act-1871/section-12",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/34-35/78",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation of Railways Act 1871",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-railways-act-1871",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Limitation of liability of companies on sea voyages in certain cases.",
  "text": "Where a railway company under a contract for carrying persons, animals, or goods by sea procure the same to be carried in a vessel not belonging to the railway company, the railway company shall be answerable in damages in respect of loss of life or personal injury, or in respect of loss of or damage to animals or goods, in like manner and to the same amount as the railway company would be answerable if the vessel had belonged to the railway company; provided that such loss of life or personal injury, or loss or damage to animals or goods, happens to the person, animals, or goods (as the case may be) during the carriage of the same in such vessel, the proof to the contrary to lie upon the railway company.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (E.W.S.) (10.5.1997) by S.I. 1997/553, reg. 12(1), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 12 repealed (E.W.S.) by Transport Act 1962 (c. 46), s. 95(3), Sch. 12 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/34-35/78/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:53:11.168012+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."
}