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SCHEDULEAMENDMENTS TO THE RAILWAYS ACTS 1993 AND 2005

PART 1

AMENDMENTS TO THE RAILWAYS ACT 1993

15.—(1) Section 57A (penalties)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2) after paragraph (a) omit “and” and insert—

(aa)in the case of a penalty imposed by the Welsh Ministers, to them; and.

(3) In subsection (5)—

(a)in the words before paragraph (a) after “the Scottish Ministers” insert “nor the Welsh Ministers”;

(b)in paragraph (a) for “the Secretary of State has or (as the case may be) those Ministers have” substitute “the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers or the Welsh Ministers (as the case may be) has or have”;

(c)in paragraph (c) for “the Secretary of State or (as the case may be) the Scottish Ministers” substitute “the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers or the Welsh Ministers (as the case may be)”.

(1)

Section 57A was inserted by section 225(1) of the Transport Act 2000 (c. 38) and amended by the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c. 20), Schedule 2, paragraph 3; the Railways Act 2005 (c. 14), Schedule 1, paragraph 23; the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), Schedule 14, paragraph 13; and the Office of Rail Regulation (Change of Name) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1682), Schedule 1, paragraph 1(ll).