{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-charging-framework-and-transfer-of-economic-regulation-functions-order-2015/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-charging-framework-and-transfer-of-economic-regulation-functions-order-2015/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/785",
  "legislation_title": "The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Charging Framework and Transfer of Economic Regulation Functions) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-charging-framework-and-transfer-of-economic-regulation-functions-order-2015",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n”the 2005 Order” means the Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 2005;\n“the 2016 Regulations” means the Railway (Access, Management and Licensing of Railway Undertakings) Regulations 2016;\n“the IGC regulation” means the regulation of the Intergovernmental Commission of 23rd March 2015 transferring economic rail regulation competence from the Intergovernmental Commission to the national regulatory bodies, setting out principles for cooperation between them and establishing a charging framework for the Channel Fixed Link; and\n“Intergovernmental Commission” means the Commission established pursuant to Article 10 of the Treaty.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 substituted (E.W.S.) (29.7.2016) by The Railways (Access, Management and Licensing of Railway Undertakings) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/645), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 15(2) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 15.6.2016 as notified in the London Gazette dated 24.6.2016, see art. 1(2)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/3207, amended by S.I. 2008/2366 and 2009/2081. All those instruments are revoked by this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Treaty” is defined in section 1(4) of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/785/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:41:35.339120+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}