PART 6Transitory provisions recognising licences granted by authorities in the EEA

Modifications to the 2005 Regulations

36.  Regulation 5 (prohibition of unlicensed provision of services) has effect as if for paragraph (1) there were substituted—

(1) Where a person is a railway undertaking to which these Regulations apply, that person may not provide a train service in Great Britain unless the person is authorised to do so—

(a)by a railway undertaking licence which is appropriate for that train service, or

(b)by a European licence which would be appropriate for that train service if the United Kingdom were an EEA state,

and any person who provides such a service without such a licence is guilty of an offence..