Railways Act 2005

Restrictions on codes of practice by HSCE+W+S

9(1)In subsection (1) of section 16 of the 1974 Act (codes of practice with respect to the requirements of certain provisions), for “sections 2 to 7 or of health and safety regulations or of any of the existing statutory provisions” substitute “ any of the enactments or instruments mentioned in subsection (1A) below ”.E+W+S

(2)After that subsection insert—

(1A)Those enactments and instruments are—

(a)sections 2 to 7 above;

(b)health and safety regulations, except so far as they make provision exclusively in relation to transport systems falling within paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 3 to the Railways Act 2005; and

(c)the existing statutory provisions that are not such provisions by virtue of section 117(4) of the Railways Act 1993.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 3 para. 9 in force at 1.4.2006 by S.I. 2006/266, art. 2(2), Sch.