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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/important-public-services-transport-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/135",
  "legislation_title": "The Important Public Services (Transport) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/important-public-services-transport-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Transport services",
  "text": "(1) The following transport services are important public services for the purposes of section 226 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992—\n(a) any bus service which is a London local service as defined in section 179(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999;\n(b) passenger railway services;\n(c) civil air traffic control services provided by persons licensed by virtue of requirements in Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/340 laying down technical requirements and administrative procedures relating to air traffic controllers’ licences and certificates pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 and repealing Commission Regulation (EU) No 805/2011;\n(d) airport security services provided by workers at airports who—\n(i) control access to a secure area of an airport;\n(ii) screen persons entering a secure area;\n(iii) screen items or vehicles entering a secure area;\n(iv) search secure areas; or\n(v) patrol secure areas;\n(e) port security services provided by workers at ports who—\n(i) control access to a restricted area of a port;\n(ii) screen persons entering a restricted area;\n(iii) screen items or vehicles entering a restricted area;\n(iv) search restricted areas; or\n(v) patrol restricted areas.\n(2) In this regulation—\n“heritage vehicle” means an historical or special type of railway vehicle exclusively or primarily used for tourist, educational or recreational purposes;\n“network”, “railway vehicle”, “station services” and “train” have the meanings given by section 83 of the Railways Act 1993;\n“passenger railway services” means any of the following—\n(a) services for the carriage of passengers by railway or tramway;\n(b) services for the maintenance of passenger trains or of the network;\n(c) signalling or controlling the operation of the network;\n(d) any station services that are essential to enable passenger trains to operate safely and securely;\nbut does not include any service for the carriage of passengers—\n(i) using a heritage vehicle;\n(ii) on a railway which the Office of Rail and Road determines in accordance with regulation 2A(1) of the Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006 is a heritage, museum or tourist railway that operates on its own network; or\n(iii) that starts or terminates outside Great Britain.\n“railway” and “tramway” have the meanings given by section 67 of the Transport and Works Act 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c.29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No L 63, 20.02.15 p1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1993 c.43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The Office of Rail and Road was established under section 15 of the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c.20). Section 15 was amended by S.I. 2015/1682, Schedule, Part 1, paragraph 2(b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/599, amended by S.I. 2013/950, 2015/1682; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1992 c.42."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/135/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:15:21.399563+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."
}