3. In section 17 (access agreements: directions requiring facility owners to enter into contracts for the use of their railway facilities)(1) in subsection (4) after the second “Secretary of State” insert “, the Welsh Ministers”.
Section 17 was amended by the Transport Act 2000 (c. 38), section 233(1), paragraph 21 of Schedule 27 and Part 4 of Schedule 31; the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c. 20), Schedule 2, paragraph 3; the Railways Act 2005 (c. 14), Schedule 1, paragraph 12 and Schedule 11, paragraph 3; regulation 21(5) of the Railways Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1340); the Railways Infrastructure (Access and Management) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3049), Schedule 1, paragraph 4; and the Office of Rail Regulation (Change of Name) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1682), Schedule 1, paragraph 1(y).