The Rail Passengers’ Rights and Obligations Regulations 2010 No. 1504

PART 2 Relationship between the European Regulation and other passenger rights

CHAPTER 1 Relationship with the rights under the COTIF Convention

Relationship with the COTIF Convention and COTIF Regulations

4.—(1) To the extent that there is a conflict between—

(a) the COTIF Regulations, including the Convention to which they give the force of law, and

(b) these Regulations,

the latter shall prevail.

(2) In the COTIF Regulations, after regulation 2 (interpretation), insert—

“Relationship with the Rail Passengers’ Rights and Obligations Regulations 2010

2A.   To the extent that there is a conflict between—

(a) these Regulations, including the Convention to which they give the force of law, and

(b) the Rail Passengers’ Rights and Obligations Regulations 2010,

the latter shall prevail.”

(3) In this regulation—

“the Convention” has the same meaning as in the COTIF Regulations, and

“the COTIF Regulations” means the Railways (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) Regulations 2005(1).

(1)

S.I. 2005/2092.