{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-rail-link-act-1996/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-rail-link-act-1996/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/61",
  "legislation_title": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-rail-link-act-1996",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Duties as to exercise of regulatory functions.",
  "text": "(1) The Office of Rail and Road shall have an overriding duty to exercise its regulatory functions in such a manner as not to impede the performance of any development agreement.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) In this section—\n...\n...\n...\nreferences to the Office of Rail and Road’s regulatory functions are to the functions assigned or transferred to it under or by virtue of Part I of the Railways Act 1993 other than any functions assigned to it by virtue of section 67(3) of that Act (“Competition Act functions”).\n(7) The Office of Rail and Road may, when exercising any Competition Act function, have regard to any matter to which it would have regard if—\n(a) it were under the duty imposed by subsection (1) ... above in relation to that function; and\n(b) the matter is one to which the Competition and Markets Authority could have regard if it were exercising that function.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 21 substituted (16.10.2015) by The Office of Rail Regulation (Change of Name) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1682), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(l)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 21 substituted (5.7.2004) by Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c. 20), Sch. 2 para. 22(b); S.I. 2004/827, art. 4(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 21(2)-(5) repealed (22.7.2008) by Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Act 2008 (c. 5), ss. 3(a), 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(6) repealed (22.7.2008) by Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Act 2008 (c. 5), ss. 3(b), 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 21 substituted (5.7.2004) by Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c. 20), Sch. 2 para. 22(a); S.I. 2004/827, art. 4(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(6) and subsection (7) inserted (1.3.2000) by 1998 c. 41, ss. 54, 66(5), Sch. 10 Pt. IV para. 16(2) (with s. 73); S.I. 2000/344, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(7) repealed (22.7.2008) by Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Act 2008 (c. 5), ss. 3(c), 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(7) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/892), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 114 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in s. 21(7)(b) substituted (1.4.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 25 para. 35(2)(b); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3) (as amended (20.7.2007) by S.I. 2007/1846, reg. 3(2), Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 21 extended (22.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1451, art. 7(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/61/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:26.800440+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."
}