Channel Tunnel Act 1987

41 Railway services: consultative committees and closures

(1) The duty—

(a) of the Central Transport Consultative Committee for Great Britain and each of the Area Transport Users Consultative Committees under section 56(4) of the [1962 c. 46.] Transport Act 1962; and

(b) of the London Regional Passengers' Committee under section 40(4) of the [1984 c. 32.] London Regional Transport Act 1984;

to consider and, where it appears to them to be desirable, make recommendations with respect to any matter affecting the services and facilities there mentioned shall apply in relation to services and facilities within this subsection as it applies in relation to services and facilities provided by the Railways Board or any subsidiary of theirs.

(2) The services and facilities within subsection (1) above are—

(a) international railway passenger services which are provided otherwise than by the Concessionaires or the Railways Board or any subsidiary of theirs; and

(b) facilities so provided which are intended for use primarily in connection with such services.

(3) In relation to any services or facilities to which by virtue of subsection (1) above the duty under section 56(4) or 40(4) applies—

(a) section 56(4) shall have effect as if references in it to a Board or to the Board concerned were references to the person providing those services and facilities; and

(b) section 40(5) to (7) and (9) and section 41(3) and (5) to (7) of the Act of 1984 shall have effect as if references in any of those provisions to the Railways Board or to the Railways Board or any subsidiary of theirs were references to that person.

(4) The reference to services and facilities in section 56(4) shall not include railway services and facilities provided by the Railways Board or any subsidiary of theirs so far as they are provided outside Great Britain.

(5) The references to railway passenger services in section 56(7) of the Act of 1962 (procedure in case of proposal to discontinue all railway passenger services from a station or on a line) shall not include international railway passenger services.

(6) In this section "international railway passenger services" means services provided in Great Britain for the carriage of passengers by rail between any place in Great Britain and any place outside Great Britain by way of the tunnel system.