Channel Tunnel Act 1987

40 Railways Board's plan for international through services

(1) It shall be the duty of the Railways Board to prepare a plan stating measures which the Board propose to take, and any proposals as to measures which the Board consider ought to be taken by any person in the United Kingdom or France, with the aim of securing—

(a) the provision or improvement of international through services serving various parts of the United Kingdom; and

(b) an increase in the proportion of the passengers and goods carried between places in the United Kingdom and places outside the United Kingdom that is carried by international through services.

(2) The measures referred to in subsection (1) above are—

(a) measures relating to the operation of international through services;

(b) measures relating to the carrying out of works or other development connected with international through services (including collection and distribution centres for goods and inland clearance depots); and

(c) measures relating to the provision or improvement of facilities or other services connected with international through services.

(3) The Railways Board—

(a) shall prepare the plan under this section not later than 31st December 1989;

(b) shall keep the plan under review and from time to time revise it; and

(c) shall cause the plan and any revisions of it to be published in such manner as they think fit.

(4) In preparing the plan and any revisions of it the Railways Board shall have regard to the financial resources likely to be available to them and to any restrictions likely to be imposed on them with respect to the application of such resources.

(5) The duties imposed by this section shall not apply at any time when the original Concession, as defined by section 1(4) of this Act, has expired or terminated and no new Concession is in operation.

(6) In this section "international through services" means services for the carriage of passengers or goods by rail by way of the tunnel system, other than shuttle services.