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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sub-national-transport-body-transport-for-the-north-regulations-2017/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sub-national-transport-body-transport-for-the-north-regulations-2017/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111161593",
  "legislation_title": "The Sub-national Transport Body (Transport for the North) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sub-national-transport-body-transport-for-the-north-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Franchise agreements",
  "text": "(1) Section 13 of the Railways Act 2005 (functions relating to franchising) has effect as if—\n(a) references to a Passenger Transport Executive included references to TfN, and\n(b) references to the area of a Passenger Transport Executive (or the integrated transport area) included references to TfN’s area.\n(2) The functions of a Passenger Transport Executive specified in that section are exercisable by TfN in relation to its area concurrently with the constituent authorities by which the functions are exercisable in relation to their areas.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2005 c. 14; section 13 was amended by the Local Transport Act 2008 (c.26), Schedule 4, paragraph 66(2) and the Deregulation Act 2015 (c.20), Schedule 8, paragraph 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111161593/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:05:49.616051+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."
}