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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-other-guided-transport-systems-safety-regulations-2006/schedule-6/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/599",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-other-guided-transport-systems-safety-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment to the Railway Safety Regulations 1999",
  "text": "(1) The Railway Safety Regulations 1999 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) for the definition of “infrastructure controller” substitute—\n““infrastructure controller” means a person who controls railway infrastructure;”;\n(ii) after the definition of “railway” insert—\n““railway infrastructure” means fixed assets used for the operation of a railway including its permanent way and plant used for signalling or exclusively for supplying electricity for operational purposes to the railway, but it does not include a station;”;\n(iii) after the definition of “speed restriction” insert—\n““station” means a railway passenger station or terminal, but does not include any permanent way or plant used for signalling or exclusively for supplying electricity for operational purposes to the railway;”; and\n(b) after paragraph (4) add—\n“(4A) Any reference in these Regulations to a person who controls railway infrastructure is a reference to a person who—\n(a) in the course of a business or other undertaking carried on by him (whether for profit or not);\n(b) is in operational control of that infrastructure,\nexcept that where such control is for the time being exercised by a person undertaking maintenance, repair or alteration work on the infrastructure, it is a reference to a person who would be in operational control of the infrastructure if such work were not being undertaken.”.\n(3) In paragraph 2 to the Schedule (meaning of railway), for the definition of “tramway” substitute—\n““tramway” means a system of transport used wholly or mainly for the carriage of passengers—\n(a) which employs parallel rails which—\n(i) provide support and guidance for vehicles carried on flanged wheels; and\n(ii) are laid wholly or partly along a road or in any other place to which the public has access (including a place to which the public only has access on making payment); and\n(b) on any part of which the permitted speed is such as to enable the driver to stop a vehicle in the distance he can see to be clear ahead;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2244, as amended by S.I. 2000/2688 and 2001/3291."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/599/schedule/6/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:35:37.659804+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."
}