Railways Act 1993

6 (1) The M1 Transport Act 1968 shall be amended in accordance with this paragraph. U.K.

(2) In section 42 of that Act, subsection (3) (which confers power to vary commencing capital debt of the Board to take account of transfers under section 7(5) or (6) or 8(4) of that Act and which is spent) shall be omitted.

(3) Section 45 of that Act (duty of the Board periodically to review its organisation) shall cease to have effect.

(4) Section 48 of that Act (which confers power on the Boards and the new authorities to undertake activities including manufacture for sale) shall cease to have effect in relation to the Board.

(5) In section 50 of that Act—

(a) subsection (2) (power of the Board to provide and manage hotels) shall cease to have effect;

(b) in subsection (4), for the words “In subsections (2) and (3) of this section the references to hotels include references" there shall be substituted the words “ In subsection (3) of this section the reference to hotels includes a reference ”; and

(c) subsection (7) (which confers power on the Boards and the new authorities to provide technical advice and assistance and which is superseded, in the case of the Board, by section 127 of this Act) shall cease to have effect in relation to the Board.

(6) In section 55 of that Act (amendments concerning Transport Consultative Committees under section 56 of the M2 Transport Act 1962), in subsection (1) (services and facilities in relation to which Consultative Committees’ duties are to apply)—

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(b) the following shall be omitted, namely—

(i) in paragraph (a), the words from “or provided" onwards,

(ii) paragraph (b),

(iii) paragraphs (i) and (iii), and

(iv) the words from “and for the purposes" onwards,

and subsections (2), (3) and (4) (duties of Consultative Committees in relation to certain services and facilities provided in Scotland, and provision as to office accommodation for, defrayment of expenditure incurred by, and certain payments to members of, Consultative Committees) shall cease to have effect.

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Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 12 para. 6(6)(a)(7) repealed (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 38, s. 274, Sch. 31 Pt. IV; S.I. 2001/57, art. 3(1), Sch. 2 Pt. I (subject to savings and transitional provisions in Sch. 2 Pt. II)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 12 para. 6 wholly in force at 1.4.1994; para. 6 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 154(2); para. 6(1)-(5)(7) in force at 6.1.1994 by S.I. 1993/3237, art. 2(2); Sch. 12 para. 6 in force at 1.4.1994 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 1994/571, art. 5

Marginal Citations

M1 1968 c. 73.

M2 1962 c. 46.