Article 39 Consultative committees

In this article “the committees” means the Rail Users' Consultative Committee for the time being established under section 2(2) of the 1993 Act for the area where the Sunderland extension is situated and the Central Rail Users' Consultative Committee established by section 3(2) of that Act.

As from the commencement of the undertaker’s passenger services on the Sunderland extension, the committees shall have the same respective functions in relation to the services and facilities provided by the undertaker on the Sunderland extension as they have under any enactment in relation to the undertaking authorised by the Tyneside Metropolitan Railway Act 1973 and the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Act 1989.