{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1962/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1962/section-61.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/46",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1962",
  "path": "section/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Amendment of enactments relating to inland waterways.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Sections thirty-five and thirty-six of the Transport Act, 1947 (under which the Commission may apply a licensing system to canal carriers on an inland waterway belonging to them), shall cease to have effect.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The definition of “ statutory water undertakers ” in subsection (1) of section fifty-nine of the Water Act 1945, shall not include the British Waterways Board.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 61(1) repealed by Transport Act 1968 (c. 73), Sch. 18 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 61(3) repealed by Transport Act 1968 (c. 73), Sch. 18 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 61(4) repealed (E.W.) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 190(3), Sch. 27 Part I (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 41(1), 57(6), 58)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1945 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 13(4), 20(4), 36(4), 37, 61(2), 68(1), 84(2)(4), the reference in Sch. 2 to London Passenger Transport Act 1933 and Sch. 11 Pt. II para 8, (which para. is now spent), is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/46/section/61",
    "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."
}