Transport Act, 1950

PART VII.

Application of certain enactments to the Board.

General application of railway and canal enactments to the Board.

47.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board shall, in relation to its railway undertaking, be deemed to be a railway company for the purposes of any enactment relating to railways.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board shall, in relation to its canal undertaking, be deemed to be a canal company for the purposes of any enactment relating to canals.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this Act and without prejudice to subsections (1) and (2) of this section, the Board shall, in relation to its railway and canal undertakings, be deemed to be a railway and canal company for the purposes of section 2 of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854.

(4) Nothing in this section shall be construed as imposing on the Board in respect of any canal belonging to either dissolved undertaker any statutory obligation to which, immediately before the establishment date, that dissolved undertaker was not subject.