Part IV Transport

Chapter IV Public passenger transport

175 Co-operation with the F1Strategic Rail Authority.

1

It shall be the duty of Transport for London (either acting directly, or acting through a subsidiary) and the F6 Secretary of State to co-operate with one another in the exercise and performance of their respective functions for the purpose—

a

of co-ordinating the passenger transport services for persons travelling to, from and within Greater London—

i

which are provided by Transport for London or any of its subsidiaries, and

ii

which are provided under franchise agreements, or F10are secured services (within the meaning of Part 4 of the Railways Act 2005) provided by or on behalf of the Secretary of State ; and

b

of securing or facilitating the duty of Transport for London under section 154(3) above;

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Before—

a

issuing an invitation to tender for a franchise agreement in a case in which the services to be provided under the agreement are or include London railway passenger services, or

b

entering into a franchise agreement in respect of such services in a case in which no such invitation has been issued,

the Secretary of State must consult Transport for London.

1B

The Secretary of State and Transport for London must each provide to the other any information which—

a

the other reasonably requires for a purpose mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b); and

b

is information which it would have been lawful for him or (as the case may be) it to disclose apart from this subsection.

2

For the purposes of the co-operation required under subsection (1) above, Transport for London and the F7Secretary of State may enter into such arrangements with one another with respect to the exercise and performance of their respective functions on such terms as may appear to them to be expedient.

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Those arrangements may include arrangements under which sums become due from Transport for London to the Secretary of State—

a

in respect of London railway passenger services;

b

in respect of station services provided in connection with such services; or

c

in respect of bus substitution services provided as alternatives for London railway passenger services.

3

The references in subsections (1) and (2) above to the functions of the F8 Secretary of State shall be taken as a reference to—

a

F8 his functions under sections 23 to 31 of the M1Railways Act 1993 (franchising of passenger services), and

b

the duties imposed upon F8 him by F11 sections 22 to 24 of the Railways Act 2005 (discontinuance of railway passenger services) to secure the provision of services.

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A reference in this section to a London railway passenger service is a reference to—

a

a service for the carriage of passengers by railway between places in Greater London; or

b

a service for the carriage of passengers by railway between places in Greater London and places outside Greater London.

3B

Expressions used in this section and in Part 1 of the Railways Act 1993 have the same meanings in this section as in that Part.

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