Interpretation
2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a)“the Act” means the Transport and Works Act 1992;
“altered works, plant or equipment” means any works plant or equipment to which alterations have been made or, where the context so requires, to which it is proposed or intended to make alterations;
“approval” means an approval which is required by regulation 4 to be obtained;
“manufacturer”, in relation to any plant or equipment, includes any person who constructs the plant or equipment by any method or who assembles the component parts thereof or, in the case of any plant or equipment which has been imported, the importer of the plant or equipment;
“member State” means a state which is a member of the Communities;
“operator” means any person carrying on, or proposing or intending to carry on, the undertaking of a relevant transport system and who proposes or intends to bring into use or, if the context so requires, who uses any works, plant or equipment or altered works, plant or equipment for the purposes of the operation of that system;
“prescribed system of guided transport” means a system using a mode of guided transport prescribed under regulation 3;
“relevant operational limitation” means a limitation on—
the maximum speed at which a vehicle may be permitted to travel,
the maximum weight which may be transmitted to the rails (or other structures which support a vehicle in use on a relevant transport system) by any one pair of wheels, or by such other parts of a vehicle as may be specified in the limitation,
the maximum number of passengers who may be permitted to travel in a vehicle,
the maximum weight of burden which may be loaded in or on to a vehicle,
any period of time, however expressed, during which the works, plant or equipment concerned may be used,
the maximum voltage at which any electrical plant or equipment may be operated,
the use in tunnels or under overhead electric traction power wires of any type of vehicle specified in the limitation,
the routes on which a vehicle specified in the limitation may be used having regard to its loading gauge, to any of its dimensions or to any of its other characteristics, or
any other restriction intended to impose a limitation on the use of any works, plant or equipment, or any altered works, plant or equipment for the purpose of securing the safe operation of the transport system of which they form part; and
“relevant transport system” means a railway, a tramway, a trolley vehicle system or a prescribed system of guided transport;
(b)any reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations; and
(c)any reference to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the regulation or Schedule in which the reference occurs.