Legislation – Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003
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- Pt. 3 functions no longer exercisableexcluded by 2017 asp 4 s. 4
- Pt. 3 functions no longer exercisableexcluded by 2017 asp 4 s. 5
- s. 19 word repealed by 2006 c. 48 Sch. 15 Pt. 1(B)
- s. 92–94 power to apply (with modifications) by 2018 c. 5 Sch. 3 para. 6(1)–(3)
- Sch. 4 para. 7(3)(c) words substituted by 2007 c. 15 Sch. 16 para. 14(2)

Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003
An Act to make provision about railways, including tramways; to make provision about transport safety; and for connected purposes.
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—