Part I The Provision of Railway Services
Access agreements
22 Amendment of access agreements.
(1)
Any amendment, or purported amendment, of an access agreement shall be void unless the amendment has been approved by the Regulator F1or is made pursuant to directions under section 22A or 22C below or Schedule 4A to this Act..
(2)
The Regulator may, for the purposes of subsection (1) above, give the parties to any particular access agreement his general approval to the making to that access agreement of amendments of a description specified in the approval; and any approval so given shall not be revoked.
(3)
The Regulator may, for the purposes of subsection (1) above, give his general approval to the making to access agreements, or to access agreements of a particular class or description, of amendments of a description specified in the approval.
(4)
Where the Regulator gives or revokes a general approval under subsection (3) above, he shall publish the approval or revocation (as the case may be) in such manner as he considers appropriate.
(5)
The revocation of a general approval given under subsection (3) above shall not affect the continuing validity of any amendment made in accordance with, and before the revocation of, that approval.
F2(6)
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F3(6A)
Neither the Director General of Fair Trading nor the Regulator may exercise, in respect of an access agreement, the powers given by section 32 (enforcement directions) or section 35(2) (interim directions) of the Competition Act 1998.
F3(6B)
Subsection (6A) does not apply to the exercise of the powers given by section 35(2) in respect of conduct—
(a)
which is connected with an access agreement; and
(b)
in respect of which section 35(1)(b) of that Act applies.