{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-licensing-of-railway-undertakings-regulations-2005/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-licensing-of-railway-undertakings-regulations-2005/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3050",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway (Licensing of Railway Undertakings) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-licensing-of-railway-undertakings-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "General duties of the Rail Passengers' Council",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (5) of section 76 of the 1993 Act (general duties of the Passengers’ Council) has effect in relation to holders of railway undertaking licences and to SNRPs as if—\n(a) the reference to the holder of a passenger licence included a reference to the holder of a railway undertaking licence which authorises the carriage of passengers by railway;\n(b) the reference to any condition of the licence included a reference to any condition of a SNRP held by the holder of the railway undertaking licence;\n(c) the reference to the Secretary of State, in the second and third places where it occurs, included a reference to the ORR; and\n(d) the reference to the Secretary of State exercising such of his powers as he considers appropriate included a reference to the ORR exercising such of its powers as it considers appropriate.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(1) substituted (25.2.2010) by The Passengers’ Council (Non-Railway Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/439), art. 1, Sch. para. 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Railway (Licensing of Railway Undertakings) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/700), regs. 1(2), 15(a) (with regs. 32-39); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 17(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Railway (Licensing of Railway Undertakings) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/700), regs. 1(2), 15(b) (with regs. 32-39); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 76(5) was amended by the Transport Act 2000, Schedule 22, Part 1, paragraphs 1 and 8, and Schedule 17, Part 2, paragraphs 17 and 20, and the Railways Act 2005 (c. 14), Schedule 1, paragraph 32."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3050/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:38.112220+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."
}