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Part I The Provision of Railway Services
Directions to provide, improve or develop railway facilities
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 Authority, of installations comprised in a network.
20. Exemption of railway facilities from sections 17 , 18 and 22A.
22A. Directions to require amendment permitting more extensive use.
22B. Applications for directions under section 22A: procedure.
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 Authority.
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 Authority.
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 Authority.
43. Notification to, and functions of, the Secretary of State and the relevant Rail Passengers Committees.
44. Reference to the Secretary of State of decisions of the Regulator concerning proposed closures.
47B. Revocation or variation of bus substitution conditions.
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.
The Rail Passengers’ Council and Rail Passengers’ Committees
Part II 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.
Part III 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.
SCHEDULES
Transfer of relevant activities in connection with railway administration orders
Perfection of vesting of foreign property, rights and liabilities
Construction of agreements, statutory provisions and documents
Minor and consequential amendments
The London Regional Transport Act 1984
14.(1) Section 2 of the London Regional Transport Act 1984...
15.In section 7 of that Act (planning of passenger transport...
17.After that section there shall be inserted— Duty of Franchising...
19.Section 41 of that Act (which provides for the committee...
21.In section 68 of that Act (interpretation) the following definitions...
The British Coal and British Rail (Transfer Proposals) Act 1993
Transitional provisions and savings
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