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The Provision of Railway Services
17. Access agreements: directions requiring facility owners to enter into contracts for the use of their railway facilities.
18. Access agreements: contracts requiring the approval of the Regulator.
19. Access agreements: contracts for the use, on behalf of the Franchising Director, of installations comprised in a network.
20. Exemption of railway facilities from sections 17 and 18.
Passenger Transport Authorities and Executives
32. Power of Passenger Transport Executives to enter into agreements with wholly owned subsidiaries of the Board.
33. Re-negotiation of section 20(2) agreements as a result of this Act.
34. Passenger Transport Authorities and Executives: franchising.
35. Termination and variation of section 20(2) agreements by the Franchising Director.
37. Proposals to discontinue non-franchised etc. passenger services.
38. Proposals to discontinue franchised etc. passenger services.
39. Notification of proposals to close operational passenger networks.
40. Proposals to close passenger networks operated on behalf of the Franchising Director.
41. Notification of proposals to close railway facilities used in connection with passenger services.
42. Proposals to close passenger railway facilities operated on behalf of the Franchising Director.
43. Notification to, and functions of, the Regulator and the relevant consultative committees.
44. Reference to the Secretary of State of decisions of the Regulator concerning proposed closures.
49. Abolition of former closure procedures, exemptions from new procedures and imposition of alternative procedure.
Supplementary powers of the Franchising Director etc.
51. Performance of the Franchising Director’s duties to secure the provision of services etc.
52. Contracts between the Franchising Director and the Board etc. for the provision of non-franchised railway passenger services.
53. Powers of the Franchising Director to form and finance companies and to acquire and dispose of assets.
54. Exercise of functions for purpose of encouraging investment in the railways.
Railway administration orders, winding up and insolvency
60. Railway administration orders made on special petitions.
61. Restriction on making winding-up order in respect of protected railway company.
62. Restrictions on voluntary winding up and insolvency proceedings in the case of protected railway companies.
63. Government financial assistance where railway administration orders made.
65. Meaning of “company” and application of provisions to unregistered, foreign and other companies.
Registers and reports of the Regulator and the Franchising Director
Re-organisation of the Railways
New companies, transfer schemes and disposals
86. Powers of the Franchising Director to make transfer schemes.
87. Transfer to the Secretary of State or the Franchising Director of the Board’s function of making transfer schemes.
88. Transfers of interests in certain companies: provisions supplemental to sections 84 to 87.
90. Directions to the Board about the exercise of rights conferred by holdings in companies.
Transfer schemes: supplemental provision
93. Assignment of employees to particular parts of undertakings.
95. Power of the Secretary of State or the Franchising Director to require provision of information in connection with transfer schemes.
96. Functions of the Secretary of State in relation to transfer schemes.
97. Supplementary provisions as to transfers by transfer scheme.
Miscellaneous, General and Supplemental Provisions
137. Payments by the Secretary of State in respect of track access charges in connection with railway goods services.
138. Grants and other payments towards facilities for public passenger transport to and from airports, harbours etc.
139. Grants to assist the provision of facilities for freight haulage by railway.
140. Grants to assist the provision of facilities for freight haulage by inland waterway.
141. Financial assistance for employees seeking to acquire franchises or parts of the Board’s undertaking etc.
An Act to provide for the appointment and functions of a Rail Regulator and a Director of Passenger Rail Franchising and of users' consultative committees for the railway industry and for certain ferry services; to make new provision with respect to the provision of railway services and the persons by whom they are to be provided or who are to secure their provision; to make provision for and in connection with the grant and acquisition of rights over, and the disposal or other transfer and vesting of, any property, rights or liabilities by means of which railway services are, or are to be, provided; to amend the functions of the British Railways Board; to make provision with respect to the safety of railways and the protection of railway employees and members of the public from personal injury and other risks arising from the construction or operation of railways; to make further provision with respect to transport police; to make provision with respect to certain railway pension schemes; to make provision for and in connection with the payment of grants and subsidies in connection with railways and in connection with the provision of facilities for freight haulage by inland waterway; to make provision in relation to tramways and other guided transport systems; and for connected purposes.
[5th November 1993]
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:—
Railways Act 1993