Railways Act 1993

6 (1) The [1968 c. 73.] Transport Act 1968 shall be amended in accordance with this paragraph.

(2) In section 42 of that Act, subsection (3) (which confers power to vary commencing capital debt of the Board to take account of transfers under section 7(5) or (6) or 8(4) of that Act and which is spent) shall be omitted.

(3) Section 45 of that Act (duty of the Board periodically to review its organisation) shall cease to have effect.

(4) Section 48 of that Act (which confers power on the Boards and the new authorities to undertake activities including manufacture for sale) shall cease to have effect in relation to the Board.

(5) In section 50 of that Act—

(a) subsection (2) (power of the Board to provide and manage hotels) shall cease to have effect;

(b) in subsection (4), for the words “In subsections (2) and (3) of this section the references to hotels include references” there shall be substituted the words “In subsection (3) of this section the reference to hotels includes a reference”; and

(c) subsection (7) (which confers power on the Boards and the new authorities to provide technical advice and assistance and which is superseded, in the case of the Board, by section 127 of this Act) shall cease to have effect in relation to the Board.

(6) In section 55 of that Act (amendments concerning Transport Consultative Committees under section 56 of the [1962 c. 46.] Transport Act 1962), in subsection (1) (services and facilities in relation to which Consultative Committees' duties are to apply)—

(a) for the words “the Consultative Committees established under that section” there shall be substituted the words “the Central Committee and the consultative committees, within the meaning of that section,”, and

(b) the following shall be omitted, namely—

(i) in paragraph (a), the words from “or provided” onwards,

(ii) paragraph (b),

(iii) paragraphs (i) and (iii), and

(iv) the words from “and for the purposes” onwards,

and subsections (2), (3) and (4) (duties of Consultative Committees in relation to certain services and facilities provided in Scotland, and provision as to office accommodation for, defrayment of expenditure incurred by, and certain payments to members of, Consultative Committees) shall cease to have effect.

(7) In section 137 of that Act (machinery for negotiation and consultation with staff), in subsection (1) (which provides that that section applies to the Board and to certain other authorities), the words “the Railways Board” in paragraph (a) shall cease to have effect.