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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-infrastructure-access-and-management-regulations-2005/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3049",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways Infrastructure (Access and Management) Regulations 2005",
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  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Access to terminals and ports",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an international grouping or railway undertaking is entitled, for the purposes of the rail activities referred to in regulation 5, to track access to and the supply of services in terminals and ports linked to the rail network which serve, or potentially serve, more than one final customer.\n(2) Requests by international groupings and railway undertakings, in accordance with the entitlements conferred by paragraph (1), may be subject to restrictions only if viable alternatives by rail under market conditions exist.\n(3) The infrastructure manager or, as the case may be, service provider must ensure that the entitlements conferred by this regulation are honoured, and that access to, and the supply of, services is granted in a transparent and non-discriminatory manner.\n(4) Without prejudice to the generality of regulation 29, if an international grouping or railway undertaking is denied the entitlements conferred on it by this regulation, or if the entitlements are made subject to restrictions other than in accordance with paragraph (2), that international grouping or railway undertaking has a right of appeal to the Office of Rail Regulation in accordance with regulation 29.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (1.1.2010)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1122",
      "affecting_title": "The Railways Infrastructure (Access and Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (1.1.2010)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1122",
      "affecting_title": "The Railways Infrastructure (Access and Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/1682",
      "affecting_title": "The Office of Rail Regulation (Change of Name) Regulations 2015"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3049/regulation/6",
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  },
  "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."
}