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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-infrastructure-access-and-management-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3049",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways Infrastructure (Access and Management) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-infrastructure-access-and-management-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Discounts",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of articles 81, 82, 86 and 87 of the Treaty, and paragraph 1(4) of this Schedule, any discount on the charges levied on a user of railway infrastructure by the infrastructure manager, for any service, must comply with the principles set out in this paragraph.\n(2) Except where sub-paragraph (3) applies, discounts shall be limited to the actual saving of the administrative cost to the infrastructure manager and, in determining the level of discount to be applied, no account may be taken of cost savings already incorporated in the charge levied.\n(3) The infrastructure manager may introduce schemes available to all users of the infrastructure, with reference to specified traffic flows, granting time limited discounts to encourage the development of new rail services, or encouraging the use of considerably under-utilised lines.\n(4) The discounts available must be in accordance with the access charges review or, in the case of a rail link facility, the development agreement.\n(5) Discounts may relate only to charges levied for a specified infrastructure section.\n(6) Similar discount schemes must be applied to similar services.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "substituted for Sch. 3 para. 2(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/786",
      "affecting_title": "The Railways Infrastructure (Access and Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (revoked)"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1122",
      "affecting_title": "The Railways Infrastructure (Access and Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (revoked)"
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    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/1682",
      "affecting_title": "The Office of Rail Regulation (Change of Name) Regulations 2015"
    }
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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."
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