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This Order may be cited as the Railways Act 1993 (Consequential Modifications) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 16th June 1999.
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(1) Section 98 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (“the Act”) (definitions for Part IV) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this article.
(2) After subsection (6)(a) there shall be inserted the following paragraph–“
(aa) any operator of a relevant railway asset;”.
(3) After subsection (6) there shall be inserted the following subsections–“
(7) Subject to subsection (8) below, “relevant railway asset” means–
(a) a transferred network, that is to say a network which was transferred by virtue of a transfer scheme made under section 85 of the Railways Act 1993 from the British Railways Board and vested in the company formed and registered under the Companies Act 1985 and known, at the date of the vesting, as Railtrack PLC,
(b) a station which is used in connection with the provision of services for the carriage of passengers on a transferred network and is operated by a provider of such services or by the operator of such a network, or
(c) a light maintenance depot which is used to provide light maintenance services for rolling stock which is used on a transferred network.
(8) A transferred network shall not cease to be such a network where it is modified by virtue of having any network or part of a network added to or removed from it.
(9) Expressions used in subsections (6)(aa), (7) and (8) above and in Part I of the Railways Act 1993 have the same meaning in those subsections as they have in that Part.”.
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In Schedule 4 to the Act (abandoned shopping and luggage trolleys) in paragraph 1(2)(d) after “road transport undertaking” there shall be inserted “, by an operator of railway services (within the meaning of Part I of the Railways Act 1993) provided in connection with a transferred network”.
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(1) The Litter (Statutory Undertakers) (Designation and Relevant Land) Order 1991 shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this article.
(2) In article 1(2), after paragraph (a) in the definition of “operational land”, there shall be inserted the following paragraph–“
(aa) in relation to any operator of a relevant railway asset, land required or used for the operation of that asset,”.
(3) In article 2, after the paragraph commencing “the British Railways Board and London Regional Transport”, there shall be inserted the following paragraph–“any operator of a relevant railway asset,”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Glenda Jackson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
23rd May 1999