Transport Act 1947

Transport Act 1947
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
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.
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Repealed	1 January 1963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Repealed by	Transport Act 1962
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted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 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.