Statutory Instruments
2015 No. 237
Transport
The Railways (North and East London Lines) Exemption Order 2015
Made
11th February 2015
Laid before Parliament
18th February 2015
Coming into force
31st May 2015
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(1) and 24(2) of the Railways Act 1993( 1 ), makes the following Order.
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Railways (North and East London Lines) Exemption Order 2015 and comes into force on 31st May 2015.
Interpretation
2. In this Order—
“concession agreement” means an agreement entered into by a TfL company under which another person agrees to provide a railway passenger service for that TfL company;
“TfL company” means Transport for London( 2 ) or any of its subsidiaries; and
“TfL concessionaire” means, in respect of a railway passenger service provided for a TfL company, the person who has agreed by a concession agreement to provide that service.
Franchise exemption
3. Exemption from designation under section 23(1) of the Railways Act 1993( 3 ) (passenger services to be subject to franchise agreements) is granted to each TfL concessionaire in respect of any railway passenger service operated by that concessionaire on a route specified in the Schedule or part of that route.
Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Claire Perry
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
11th February 2015
Article 3
SCHEDULE The specified routes
London Liverpool Street station to Enfield Town station
London Liverpool Street station to Cheshunt station (via Southbury)
London Liverpool Street station to Chingford station
Romford station to Upminster station
1993 c. 43 ; section 24(1) and 24(2) was amended by the Railways Act 2005 (c. 14) , Schedule 1, Part 1, paragraph 14(1) and (2). For the purposes of this Order the Secretary of State is the “appropriate designating authority”; see definition in section 23(3).
Transport for London is a body corporate established under section 154 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29) .
Section 23(1) was amended by the Railways Act 2005 (c. 14) , Schedule 1, Part 1, paragraph 13(1), and the Transport Act 2000 (c. 38) , section 212(1).