Amendments proposed to the Railways Bill, As Amended - continued	House of Commons
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Mr Secretary Darling

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Page     56,     line     10     [Clause     53],     at end insert—

    '( )   After section 119(5) of that Act insert—

    "(5A)   The Secretary of State may give an instruction under this section for the protection of a relevant asset that is wholly in Scotland, or of persons or property on or in such an asset, only if—

(a)	the asset would be a relevant asset even if railway did not have its wider meaning for the purposes of this section; or

(b)	the instruction is given in the interests of national security.

    (5B)   In subsection (5A) the reference to an instruction given in the interests of national security includes a reference to any instruction given for the purpose of ensuring that protection against terrorism is provided to the asset, persons or property in question."

    ( )   In section 119(11) of that Act, after the definition of "specified" insert—

"'terrorism' has the same meaning as in the Terrorism Act 2000 (c.11) (see section 1 of that Act);".'.

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Mr Secretary Darling

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Page     66,     line     17     [Schedule     1],     leave out 'Secretary of State' and insert 'Strategic Rail Authority'.

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John McDonnell
Jeremy Corbyn
Mr Kelvin Hopkins
Mr Robert N. Wareing
Alan Simpson
John Cryer

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Page     72,     line     26     [Schedule     1],     leave out sub-paragraph (2) and insert—

    '(2)   Leave out subsections (2) and (3) and insert—

    "(2)   The Secretary of State and Scottish Ministers must each promote the provision of staff concessionary travel for all staff employed by—

(a)	railway passenger companies,

(b)	railways freight companies,

(c)	Network Rail,

(d)	rail infrastructure, renewals and signalling companies and

(e)	any other companies responsible for functions previously undertaken by British Rail.

    (3)   The Secretary of State and Scottish Ministers must enter into agreements of other arrangements concerning the provision of staff concessionary travel for all staff employed by—

(a)	railway passenger companies,

(b)	railways freight companies,

(c)	Network Rail,

(d)	rail infrastructure, renewals and signalling companies or

(e)	any other companies responsible for functions previously undertaken by British Rail.".'.

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Mr Secretary Darling

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Page     87,     line     44     [Schedule     3],     at end insert—

'Regulatory Reform Act 2001

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The effect of the preceding provisions of this Schedule is to be disregarded in determining for the purposes of section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 (power by order to make provision reforming law which imposes burdens) whether any provision of the 1974 Act falls within subsection (4)(a) of that section (provision amended by Act within previous two years).'.

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Mr Greg Knight
Mr Tim Yeo
Mr Christopher Chope
Mr Mark Field
Mr David Wilshire

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Page     113     [Schedule     8],     leave out line 36 and insert—

'(a)	he has made all such enquiries as are reasonable in the circumstances, and'.

   

Mr Greg Knight
Mr Tim Yeo
Mr Christopher Chope
Mr Mark Field
Mr David Wilshire

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Page     113,     line     40     [Schedule     8],     at beginning insert 'reasonably'.

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ORDER OF THE HOUSE [6TH DECMEBER 2004]

That the following provisions shall apply to the Railways Bill.

Committal

    1.   The Bill shall be committed to a Standing Committee.

Proceedings in Standing Committee

    2.   Proceedings in the Standing Committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Tuesday 18th January 2005.

    3.   The Standing Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it meets.

Consideration and Third Reading

    4.   Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the day on which those proceedings are commenced.

    5.   Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

Programming Committee

    6.   Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.

Programming of proceedings

    7.   Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the Lords) may be programmed.

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Prepared 21 Jan 2005