{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/73",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Amendments as to Transport Consultative Committees Passengers’ Council and London Transport Users’ Committee .",
  "text": "(1) The services and facilities in relation to which, under section 56 of the Act of 1962, the duty imposed, subject to the subsequent provisions of that section, by subsection (4) thereof on the Rail Passengers’ Council Passengers’ Council and the Rail Passengers’ Committees London Transport Users' Committee falls to be exercised—\n(a) shall not include any services or facilities provided by the Waterways Board . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nand accordingly—\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(ii) the reference in paragraph (b) of that subsection to a Board shall be construed as excluding a reference to the Waterways Board ... ;\n(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 55(1) substituted (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 38, s. 227, Sch. 22 para. 17; S.I. 2001/57, art. 3, Sch. 2 Pt. I (subject to transitional provision and saving in Sch. 2 Pt. II)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 55(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (25.2.2010) by The Passengers’ Council (Non-Railway Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/439), Sch. para. 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 55 substituted (E.W.S.) (24.7.2005) by Railways Act 2005 (c. 14), s. 60(2), Sch. 12 para. 2(2); S.I. 2005/1909, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 55(1)(a) repealed (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 43, s. 150(1)(o), Sch. 12 para. 6(6)(b)(i), Sch. 14; S.I. 1994/571, art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 55(1)(b) repealed (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 43, ss. 150(1)(o), Sch. 12. para. 6(6)(b)(ii), Sch. 14; S.I. 1994/571, art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 55(1)(b)(i)(iii) repealed (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 43, ss. 150(1)(o), Sch. 12 para. 6(6)(b)(iii), Sch. 14; S.I. 1994/571, art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words repealed by Transport Act 1980 (c. 34, SIF 126), Sch. 9 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 55(1)(iv) repealed by Transport Act 1980 (c. 34, SIF 126), Sch. 9 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 55(1)(b) repealed (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 43, ss. 150(1)(o), Sch. 12 para. 6(6)(b)(iv), Sch. 14; S.I. 1994/571, art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S. 55(2)-(4) repealed (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 43, ss. 150(1)(o), Sch. 12 para. 6(6), Sch. 14; S.I. 1994/571, art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Ss. 54(8), 55(5) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. VI"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in s. 55 heading substituted (E.W.S.) (25.2.2010) by The Passengers’ Council (Non-Railway Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/439), Sch. para. 4(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/73/section/55",
    "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."
}