Exemption certificates
8.—(1) The Department may, by certificate in writing, exempt any person or class of persons, railway, part of a railway or class of railways, train or rolling stock, or class of train or rolling stock from any prohibition imposed by these Regulations and any such exemption may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be revoked by a certificate in writing at any time.
(2) Before granting an exemption the Department shall consult such persons as it considers appropriate.
(3) In deciding whether to grant any such exemption the Department shall have regard to—
(a)the conditions, if any which it proposes to attach to the exemption;
(b)any other requirements imposed by or under any enactment which apply to the case;
(c)all other circumstances of the case.