The Railways (North and West London Lines) Exemption Order 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 1790

transport

The Railways (North and West London Lines) Exemption Order 2007

Made

21st June 2007

Laid before Parliament

25th June 2007

Coming into force

11th November 2007

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 24(1) and (2), of the Railways Act 1993(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Railways (North and West London Lines) Exemption Order 2007 and comes into force on 11th November 2007.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“concession agreement” means an agreement entered into by a TfL company, pursuant to which another person agrees to provide a railway passenger service for that TfL company;

“TfL company” means Transport for London or any of its subsidiaries; and

“TfL concessionaire” means, in respect of a railway passenger service provided for a TfL company, the person who has agreed by a concession agreement to provide that service.

Franchise exemption

3.  Exemption from designation under section 23(1) of the Railways Act 1993(2) (passenger services to be subject to franchise agreements) is granted to each TfL concessionaire in respect of any railway passenger service operated by that concessionaire on a route specified in the Schedule.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Tom Harris

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

21st June 2007

Article 3

THE SCHEDULE The specified routes

• Gospel Oak station to Barking station.

• Willesden Junction (High Level) station to Clapham Junction station via Kensington Olympia station and West Brompton station.

• London Euston station to Watford Junction station via Watford High Street station.

• Stratford Low Level station to Richmond station via Kensal Rise.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for the grant of exemption from the franchising provisions in section 23 of the Railways Act 1993 to concessionaires of Transport for London and their subsidiaries. This exemption relates to any railway passenger service which a concessionaire operates on a route specified in the Schedule.

(1)

1993 c.43; section 24(1) and (2) was amended by the Railways Act 2005 (c.14), Schedule 1, Part 1, paragraph 14(1) and (2). See section 23(3) of the Railways Act 1993 (as amended by the Railways Act 2005, Schedule 1, Part 1, paragraph 13(4)(a)) for the definition of “the appropriate designating authority” in section 24(1) and (2).

(2)

Section 23(1) was amended by the Railways Act 2005, Schedule 1, paragraph 13(1), and the Transport Act 2000 (c.38), section 212(1).