The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (Railways) Order 2018

10.—(1) Section 30 (duty of relevant franchising authority)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (3)(aa)—

(a) for “the relevant franchising authority” substitute “the Secretary of State or the Scottish Ministers”;

(b) for “the authority that it” substitute “the Secretary of State or the Scottish Ministers (as the case may be) that the Secretary of State or the Scottish Ministers”;

(c) for “the National Assembly for Wales” substitute “the Welsh Ministers”;

(d) for “that Assembly” substitute “the Welsh Ministers”.

(3) In subsection (3A)—

(a) for “and the Scottish Ministers” substitute “, the Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Ministers”;

(b) at the end insert “, and the Welsh Ministers shall have power to provide Wales-only services and Welsh components of Welsh services.”

(4) In subsection (3C) omit the definition of “Welsh service” and the “and” before it.

(1)

Section 30 was substituted by section 212(5) of the Transport Act 2000 (c. 38) and amended by the Railways Act 2005 (c. 14), section 18, paragraph 20 of Schedule 1, paragraph 4 of Schedule 11 and Part 1 of Schedule 13; and the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), Schedule 8, paragraph 10.