| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to provide for the establishment of a British Transport Commission concerned with transport and certain other related matters, to specify their powers and duties, to provide for the transfer to them of undertakings, parts of undertakings, property, rights, obligations and liabilities, to amend the law relating to transport, inland waterways, harbours and port facilities, to make certain consequential provision as to income tax, to make provision as to pensions and gratuities in the case of certain persons who become officers of the Minister of Transport, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. |
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| Citation | 10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 49 |
| Territorial extent | United Kingdom |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 6 August 1947 |
| Commencement | 1 January 1948 |
| Repealed | 1 January 1963 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | Transport Act 1962 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Transport Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 49) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Under the terms of the Act, the railway network, long-distance road haulage and various other types of transport were nationalised and came under the administration of the British Transport Commission. The BTC was responsible to the Ministry of Transport for general transport policy, which it exercised principally through financial control of a number of executives set up to manage specified sections of the industry under schemes of delegation.