# The Railways Regulations 1998, Regulation 7: Calculation of, and rules for the determination of, fees for the use of railway infrastructure


(1) Infrastructure managers shall charge, and be paid, fees for the use by railway undertakings and international groupings of railway infrastructure for which they are responsible.
(2) Infrastructure fees shall be determined so as to avoid any discrimination in the charging for services of an equivalent nature in the same market.
(3) Infrastructure fees shall be determined in accordance with the rules in Schedule 1 and, in relation to a fee to be charged under an agreement which is an access contract entered into pursuant to a direction under section 17 or 18 of the Railways Act 1993, it shall fall to the Regulator, in consultation with the infrastructure manager and the person by whom the fee is payable or a person acting on his behalf, to determine the fee in accordance with those rules as if in rules 2, 4 and 5 the references to an amount determined by agreement were references to an amount determined by the Regulator in consultation with those persons.
(4) The rules in Schedule 1 apply to the determination of fees on the conclusion, modification or renewal of agreements for the use of railway infrastructure.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1340/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/railways-regulations-1998/regulation-7
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