There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Railway and Canal Commission (Abolition) Act 1949, Section 1.
(1)The Railway and Canal Commission (in this Act referred to as “the Commission”) shall cease to exist, and the functions which immediately before the commencement of this Act were functions of the Commission shall—
(a)so far as they extend to England and Wales, be exercised and performed by the High Court; and
(b)so far as they extend to Scotland, be exercised or performed by the Court of Session;
and any reference to the Commission in any enactment relating to the function aforesaid shall, in relation to those functions, be construed as references to the aforesaid courts:
Provided that this section shall not apply to functions of the Commission as respects which provision is made by any of the following sections of this Act.
(2)For the purposes of this section, the expression “enactment” includes any regulation, order or other instrument made under an Act of Parliament.
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