The Railways (Amendment) Regulations 1998

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 1998/1340 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 1519

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The Railways (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made

22nd June 1998

Laid before Parliament

23rd June 1998

Coming into force

27th June 1998

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated(1) for the purpose of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures relating to railways and railway transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Railways (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 27th June 1998.

2.—(1) Regulation 21 of the Railways Regulations 1998(3) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (2) after “After subsection (1)” insert “of section 6”.

(3) In paragraph (4) for “of section 6 there shall be inserted” substitute “of that section insert”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Glenda Jackson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

22nd June 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

This instrument remedies a defect in the Railways Regulations 1998 by inserting a reference to section 6 of the Railways Act 1993 in regulation 21(2).

(1)

S.I. 1996/266.

(2)

1972 c. 68. By virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51) regulations may be made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 to implement obligations of the United Kingdom created or arising by or under the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 (Cm 2073) and the Protocol adjusting the Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993 (Cm 2183).

(3)

S.I. 1998/1340.