Paragraph 2 Establishment of Railway Heritage Committee

(1)

A committee, to be known as the Railway Heritage Committee, is hereby established.

(2)

The Committee shall consist of a chairman, and not less than six other members, appointed by the Board with the approval of the Secretary of State.

(3)

The Board shall secure that, so far as reasonably practicable, the members of the Committee shall at all times include–

(a)

at least one person for the time being appointed under section 2(1) of the Public Records Act 1958^f1;

(b)

at least one person for the time being appointed under section 1(1) or (4) of the Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948^f2;

(c)

at least one person who appears to the Board, having regard to the views of the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, to represent the interests of the National Railway Museum at York;

(d)

at least two persons (not employed by the same employer) each of whom is employed by one of the following, namely–

(i)

the Board;

(ii)

a wholly owned subsidiary of the Board;

(iii)

a publicly owned railway company.

(4)

The chairman of the Committee shall be a person who does not fall within any of the categories of person mentioned in sub–paragraphs (a) to (d) of sub–paragraph (3).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1958 c. 51.
f2: 1948 c. 57.