The Railways Infrastructure (Access, Management and Licensing of Railway Undertakings) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019

Access rights

5.  In regulation 4 (Access rights)—

(a) in paragraph (1) omit “international”;

(b) in paragraph (5)—

(i) for “an international passenger service” substitute “a passenger service”;

(ii) for “the international route” substitute “the route”; and

(iii) omit “, including stations located in the same Member State”;

(c) omit paragraph (6);

(d) for paragraph (7) substitute—

“(7) The Office of Rail and Road may, in accordance with regulation 33, limit the rights granted by this regulation to passenger services between a place of departure and a destination where one or more public service contracts cover the same route or an alternative route if the exercise of any such right would compromise the economic equilibrium of the public service contract or contracts in question.”;

(e) omit paragraph (8); and

(f) in paragraph (10) for “or regulation 33” substitute “and regulation 33”.