{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1962/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1962/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/46",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1962",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Railways Board’s road services.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to this section, the Railways Board shall have power—\n(a) to provide transport services by road—\n(i) for the carriage of goods which have been or are to be carried by rail or water by the Railways Board, and\n(ii) for the carriage of goods where a railway service has been temporarily interrupted, . . .\n(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nand to carry goods . . . by those services;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n3), (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Except as provided by this section the Railways Board shall not have power to provide services for the transport of goods . . . by road.\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word repealed by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 139(3), Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 4(1)(a) sub-paragraph (iii) and the words “and passengers” repealed by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), ss. 118(2)(a)(i), 139(3), Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 4(1)(b), (2) and (7) repealed (6.1.1994) by 1993 c. 43, ss. 150(1)(o), 152(1)(3), Sch. 12 para. 5(2)(a), Sch. 14; S.I. 1993/3237, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Ss. 4(3)(4), 6 repealed by Transport Act 1968 (c. 73), Sch. 18 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 4(5) repealed by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), ss. 118(2)(b), 139(3), Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words repealed by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), ss. 118(2)(c), 139(3), Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4 restricted by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 118(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/46/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:02:33.467872+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."
}