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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3291",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\n1 These Regulations amend the Railways (Safety Case) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2688) (“the 2000 Regulations”), the Railways Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1340) and the Railway Safety Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2244). The principal amendments made by these Regulations are as follows.\n2 Regulations 6 and 10 bring regulations 7(3) and 16(3)(b) of the 2000 Regulations in line with regulation 5(2) of those Regulations, by requiring a revision to a safety case to be submitted to the relevant infrastructure controller at the same time that it is submitted to the Health and Safety Executive (“the Executive”).\n3 Regulation 9(b) amends regulation 9 of the 2000 Regulations to extend the duty on infrastructure controllers to procure 12 monthly audits by an assessment body to cover, additionally, their train operations.\n4 Regulation 11(b) amends paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Regulations by including a requirement on railway operators who operate trains to include in their railway safety case particulars of the arrangements which they have established for the provision of equipment and arrangements for escape of persons in an emergency from trains operated by them. Detailed transitional arrangements covering safety cases or revisions to safety cases which do not already include particulars of such arrangements are included at regulation 12.\n5 Regulations 14-16 amend regulation 13(2)(a)(i) of the Railways Regulations 1998 to reflect the fact that a railway undertaking or international grouping may have prepared a safety case under either the Railways (Safety Case) Regulations 1994 or the 2000 Regulations and that a safety case may have been accepted either by a relevant infrastructure controller or by the Executive.\n6 Regulation 17 changes the reference to line speed in the Railway Safety Regulations 1999 from imperial to the equivalent metric unit of measurement.\n7 A copy of the regulatory impact assessment prepared in respect of these Regulations can be obtained from the Railways Directorate, Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions, Zone 3/29 Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DR. A copy has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament.",
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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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