The Railways Infrastructure (Access, Management and Licensing of Railway Undertakings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Regulations 19 and 22

SCHEDULE 3 TIMETABLE FOR THE ALLOCATION PROCESS

Date of timetable change

1.—(1) Subject to subparagraph (2), (3) and (4) the working timetable must be established once per calendar year and the change of working timetable must take place at midnight on the second Saturday in December.

(2) Where a change or adjustment to the working timetable is carried out after the winter, in particular to take account, where appropriate, of changes in regional passenger traffic timetables, it must take place at midnight on the second Saturday in June.

(3) Further changes to the working timetable may be made at such other intervals as are required.

(4) The infrastructure manager may agree different dates to those stipulated in subparagraphs (1) and (2) and, in this case, must inform the European Commission if international traffic may be affected.

Timetable for the production of the working timetable

2.—(1) The final date for receipt of requests for capacity to be incorporated into the working timetable must be no more than 12 months in advance of the entry into force of the working timetable.

(2) No later than eleven months before the working timetable comes into force, the infrastructure managers must ensure that provisional international train paths have been established in co-operation with other relevant infrastructure managers or, as the case may be, allocation bodies, in accordance with regulation 20.

(3) Infrastructure managers must ensure that, so far as possible, provisional international train paths established in accordance with subparagraph (2) are adhered to during the subsequent allocation process.

(4) No later than four months after the deadline for submission for bids by applicants, the infrastructure manager must prepare a draft working timetable.