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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-passengers-rights-and-obligations-exemptions-regulations-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2793",
  "legislation_title": "The Rail Passengers’ Rights and Obligations (Exemptions) Regulations 2014",
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  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations exempt domestic rail passenger services in Great Britain from provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23rd October 2007 on rail passengers’ rights and obligations (“the European Regulation”) (OJ No. L315, 3.12.2007, p.14).\nThe European Regulation establishes minimum standards across the European Union in the areas of information and ticketing provision, liability in respect of passengers and their luggage, compensation and assistance in the event of delays, rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility, passengers’ security, the handling of complaints, the definition and monitoring of service standards and enforcement of those rights. It came into force on 4th December 2009 and Article 2(4) gives Member States the power to grant exemptions to domestic rail passenger services from all the provisions of the European Regulation except those listed in Article 2(3). Those provisions concern the availability of tickets, liability of train companies and their insurance obligations for passengers and their luggage, accessibility and information for disabled persons and persons of reduced mobility and the personal security of passengers. An exemption can be granted for an initial period of up to five years, which can be renewed twice, culminating in a total period of fifteen years.\nThe Rail Passengers’ Rights and Obligations (Exemptions) Regulations 2009 (SI 2009/2970) which granted a full exemption to domestic rail passenger services in Great Britain from all the provisions of the European Regulation except those listed in Article 2(3) ceases to have effect on 4th December 2014.\nRegulation 1(2) provides that these Regulations will cease to have effect at the end of the second five year exemption period, that is to say on 4th December 2019.\nRegulation 4 grants a further exemption to domestic rail passenger services in Great Britain on the same terms as in 2009.\nRegulation 5 makes ancillary provision to regulate the relationship between those operating exempt services and those operating services that are not exempt. Under the European Regulation, an operator may be liable to passengers for acts and omissions of others, but those others may in turn be liable to that operator. However, where those others are exempt under these Regulations they may no longer be so liable to that operator. Regulation 5 preserves the original position.\nRegulation 6 revokes the Rail Passengers’ Rights and Obligations (Exemptions) Regulation 2009.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available alongside this instrument on the website www.legislation.gov.uk.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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