Regulation 5 Minimum service levels: category B services

(1)

The level of service for the purposes of enabling work notices under section 234C of the 1992 Act to be given in relation to strikes as respects category B services, is the provision of those services between the hours of 06.00 and 22.00 on—

(a)

priority routes; and

(b)

any part of a network within a 5-mile radius of priority routes, which consists of loops, sidings and lines which connect priority routes to any of the following—

(i)

stabling facilities or depots for rolling stock;

(ii)

stabling facilities or depots for plant, equipment and machinery referred to in sub-paragraph (h) of the definition of “infrastructure services” (see regulation 2(1));

(iii)

freight terminals.

(2)

For the purposes of this regulation priority routes are—

(a)

any route in either direction between a station listed in the table in the Schedule in column 1 and a station listed in the corresponding entry in column 2, which is via any station listed in the corresponding entry in column 3 and which is not via any station listed in the corresponding entry in column 4;

(b)

the route in either direction over the “rail link” as that term is defined in section 56(1) of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996^f1.

(3)

In this regulation, “network” and “rolling stock” have the meanings given by section 83(1) of the Railways Act 1993.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1996 c. 61.