Operation of railwaysE+W+S
6.—(1) The undertaker may operate and use the railways as a system, or part of a system, of transport for the carriage of passengers and goods.
(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), the motive power to be used on the railways is to be steam, diesel-electric, diesel, internal combustion, electric-battery or such other motive power as the Office of Rail Regulation may in writing approve.
(3) Nothing in this Order authorises the use of electrical power as motive power on the railways unless such power is obtained from storage batteries or from a source of generation entirely contained in, and carried along with, the engines and carriages.
(4) If electrical power is used as motive power on the railways, such electrical power must not be used in such a manner as to cause, or be likely to cause, any interference with any electronic communications apparatus or with the use of such apparatus.
(5) Nothing in this Order, or in any enactment applied by this Order, prejudices or affects the operation of Part 1 of the Railways Act 1993 M1.
(6) In this article “electronic communications apparatus” has the same meaning as in the electronic communications code, being the code as defined by section 106 of the Communications Act 2003 M2.
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