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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-safety-case-regulations-1994/schedule-1/paragraph-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/237",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways (Safety Case) Regulations 1994",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/18",
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  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n(a) “audit” means systematic assessment of the adequacy of the management system to achieve the purpose referred to in paragraph 7 carried out by persons who are sufficiently independent of the system (but who may be employed by the duty holder) to ensure that such assessment is objective;\n(b) “management system” means the organisation and arrangements established by the duty holder for managing his undertaking;\n(c) any reference to an operation intended to be undertaken by a duty holder is—\n(i) where the safety case is prepared pursuant to regulation 3, a reference to the operations he intends to carry out in relation to the railway infrastructure concerned;\n(ii) where the safety case is prepared pursuant to regulation 4 or 5, a reference to the train or station operations concerned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3242",
      "affecting_title": "The Management of Health and Safety at Work"
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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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