50. In section 34 (minor modifications)(1) after subsection (2) insert—
“(2A) It is the Welsh Ministers who may make a determination that a closure is a minor modification, or that closures of a particular description are minor modifications, where the only closures to which the determination relates consist in—
(a)the discontinuance of one or more Wales-only services; or
(b)the discontinuance of a station, or part of a station, that—
(i)is wholly in Wales, and
(ii)is a station to which subsection (2B) applies or part of such a station.
(2B) This subsection applies to a station at which the only scheduled calls made by any railway passenger service are those made by a railway passenger service provided under a Welsh franchise agreement or secured to any extent by the Welsh Ministers.”
Section 34 was amended by the Office of Rail Regulation (Change of Name) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1682), Schedule 1, paragraph 3(m).