{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968/section-123",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968/section-123.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/73",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968",
  "path": "section/123",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "123",
  "heading": "Power of highway and other authorities to contribute to cost of barriers, etc., at level crossings.",
  "text": "(1) Contributions to the expenses incurred by the Railways Board or a network owner in providing lifting or other barriers, lights, signs, or other devices or appliances for the protection or convenience of the public at or near any level crossing where a road is crossed by a railway of the Board , or, as the case may be, by a railway comprised in a transferred network or a new network of that network owner, may be made by—\n(a) the highway authority, if any, for that road; and\n(b) any local authority, not being the highway authority, in whose area the level crossing is situated.\n(2) In this section “local authority” means, as respects England and Wales, the council of a county,. . . London borough or county district. . . and the Common Council of the City of London and “network owner\", “new network”and “transferred network”shall be given the meanings in section 122(5) above,and, as respects Scotland, a county council and a town council.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 123(1) inserted (20.3.1996) by S.I. 1996/420, art. 2 Sch. para. 7(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed (S.) by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 29 and repealed (E.W.S.) by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 57(6), Sch. 3 para. 21(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70, SIF 81:1), Sch. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70, SIF 81:1), s. 179(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 102, Sch. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 123(2) inserted (20.3.1996) by S.I. 1996/420, art. 2 Sch. para. 7(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/73/section/123",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:29.968251+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."
}