Railways Act 2005

General duty of LTUC to keep railway matters under review E+W+S

2 E+W+S Before section 253 of that Act insert—

“252A Committee to keep railways matters under review

(1) It shall be the duty of the Committee, so far as it appears to it expedient from time to time to do so—

(a) to keep under review matters affecting the interests of the public in relation to railway passenger services provided wholly or partly within the London railway area;

(b) to keep under review matters affecting the provision of station services within that area;

(c) to make representations to, and to consult, such persons as it thinks appropriate about the matters mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b); and

(d) to co-operate with other bodies representing the interests of users of public passenger transport services provided wholly or partly within that area.

(2) In this section—

(a) references to the London railway area are references to the area for which the Committee fell, immediately before the repeal of section 2 of the Railways Act 1993 (Rail Passengers' Committees), to be treated as the Rail Passengers' Committee for the purposes specified in subsection (4) of that section;

(b) references to railway passenger services include references to bus substitution services; and

(c) subject to that, expressions used in this section and in Part 1 of the Railways Act 1993 have the same meanings in this section as in that Part.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 6 para. 2 in force at 24.7.2005 by S.I. 2005/1909, art. 2, Sch.