The Railways Infrastructure (Access, Management and Licensing of Railway Undertakings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Regulation 15(5) and 17(2)

SCHEDULE 3TIMETABLE FOR THE ALLOCATION PROCESS

Date of timetable change

1.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) the working timetable shall be established once per calendar year, and the change of working timetable shall take place at midnight on the second Saturday in December.

(2) Where a change or adjustment to the working timetable is carried out after the winter, in particular to take account, where appropriate, of changes in regional passenger traffic timetables, it shall take place at midnight on the second Saturday in June and at such other intervals between these dates as are required.

(3) The infrastructure manager may agree different dates and, in this case, shall inform the European Commission if international traffic may be affected.

Timetable for the production of the working timetable

2.—(1) The final date for receipt of requests for capacity to be incorporated into the working timetable shall be no more than 12 months in advance of the entry into force of the working timetable in accordance with paragraph 1.

(2) No later than four months after the deadline for submission of bids by applicants, the infrastructure manager shall prepare a draft working timetable.