The Railways (Interoperability) (High-Speed) Regulations 2002

Structural subsystems: duties in respect of registers

26.—(1) The owner of authorised high-speed rolling stock shall create and maintain a register in accordance with paragraph (3) (“the rolling stock register”).

(2) The owner of authorised high-speed infrastructure shall create and maintain a register in accordance with paragraph (4) (“the infrastructure register”).

(3) The rolling stock register shall contain the following information in respect of authorised high-speed rolling stock—

(a) all the information required by any relevant TSI; and

(b) where conformity with the whole or part of a TSI is not required pursuant to regulation 15, or in the circumstances provided for in regulation 13(5), details of the part of the TSI that has not been conformed to.

(4) The infrastructure register shall contain the following information in respect of authorised high-speed infrastructure—

(a) all the information required by any relevant TSI; and

(b) where conformity with the whole or part of a TSI is not required pursuant to regulation 15, or in the circumstances provided for in regulation 13(5), details of the part of the TSI that has not been conformed to.

(5) The owner of—

(a) authorised high-speed rolling stock shall maintain the rolling stock register; and

(b) authorised high-speed infrastructure shall maintain the infrastructure register,

from the time that a structural subsystem owned by him is authorised for placing into service pursuant to regulation 14 and for the period that it remains in use and under his ownership.

(6) The owner of authorised high-speed rolling stock and the owner of authorised high-speed infrastructure shall update any register that he is required to create and maintain in accordance with this regulation—

(a) each time he obtains an authorisation for a structural subsystem pursuant to regulation 14; and

(b) each time he acquires ownership of a structural subsystem to which these Regulations apply.

(7) The owner of authorised high-speed rolling stock and the owner of authorised high-speed infrastructure shall send to the Authority a copy of—

(a) any register that he is required to create under this regulation; and

(b) any information that he is required to add to any register in accordance with paragraph (6),

within the period specified in paragraph (8).

(8) The period referred to in paragraph (7) is—

(a) as respects paragraph (7)(a), that of 21 days beginning with the date on which the authorisation under regulation 14 is given; and

(b) as respects paragraph 7(b), that of 21 days beginning with the date on which the authorisation under regulation 14 is given or the ownership is acquired.

(9) Where the owner of authorised high-speed rolling stock or the owner of high-speed infrastructure is not the operator of that rolling stock or infrastructure he shall send to the operator of that rolling stock or infrastructure a copy of the rolling stock register or infrastructure register, as the case may be, at the same time that he is required to send the rolling stock register or infrastructure register to the Authority in accordance with paragraph (7).

(10) Where the owner of high-speed rolling stock or the owner of high-speed infrastructure disposes of his interest in that rolling stock or infrastructure he shall give to the person who acquires that interest the register that he has kept in respect of that rolling stock or infrastructure and the acquirer shall be regarded as being the owner of that rolling stock or infrastructure, as the case may be, for the purposes of this regulation.

(11) For the purposes of this regulation;

(a) “authorised high-speed infrastructure” means infrastructure subsystems, energy subsystems, and control and command and signalling subsystems that have been authorised for placing into service under regulation 14; and

(b) “authorised high-speed rolling stock” means high-speed rolling stock that has been authorised for placing into service under regulation 14.