17 Access agreements: directions requiring facility owners to enter into contracts for the use of their railway facilities
Railways Act 1993 (1993 c 43) | Legislation

Access agreements

17  Access agreements: directions requiring facility owners to enter into contracts for the use of their railway facilities

(1)     [The Office of Rail and Road] may, on the application of any person, give directions to a facility owner requiring him to enter into an access contract with the applicant for the purpose specified in subsection (2) below; but no such directions shall be given if and to the extent that—

(a)     the facility owner's railway facility is, by virtue of section 20 below, an exempt facility;

(b)     performance of the access contract, if entered into, would necessarily involve the facility owner in being in breach of an access agreement . . .; . . . [or]

(c)     as a result of an obligation or duty owed by the facility owner which arose before the coming into force of this section, the consent of some other person is required by the facility owner before he may enter into the access contract. [. . .

(d)     . . ..]

(2)     The purpose for which directions may be given is that of enabling the beneficiary to obtain (whether for himself alone or for himself and, so far as may be applicable, associates of his)—

(a)     from a facility owner

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