{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-public-service-obligations-regulations-2010/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-public-service-obligations-regulations-2010/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/402",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways (Public Service Obligations) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-public-service-obligations-regulations-2010",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Transport\nMade 18th February 2010\nLaid before Parliament 24th February 2010\nComing into force 18th March 2010\nThe Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nHe is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) in relation to measures relating to railways and railway transport.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 27(1)(a) and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), section 3(3), Schedule, Part 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/266, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/402/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:52:12.185292+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."
}