Subject to article 10, exemption is hereby granted to the GMPTE and to the Concessionaire from the requirement in section 6 of the Act (prohibition on unauthorised operators of railway assets) to be authorised by licence to be the operator of the Metrolink Light Rail Network and such network depots, network stations, network interchanges and network trains as are used predominantly in connection with the provision of railway passenger services on that network.

In determining the predominant use of a railway asset for the purposes of this article, temporary use for any purpose and any use for emergency purposes shall be disregarded.

In this article, “network interchange” means, in relation to a station which is not a network station, such part of that station as is operated by the GMPTE or the Concessionaire in connection with the provision of regular railway passenger services on the Metrolink Light Rail Network.