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The Railways (Revocation and Consequential Provision) Regulations 2024 – explanatory notes

Explanatory notes for The Railways (Revocation and Consequential Provision) statutory instrument (SI) which revokes several pieces of rail-related assimilated law.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 8 February 2024

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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The Railways (Revocation and Consequential Provision) Regulations 2024 – explanatory notes

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This document relates to the Railways (Revocation and Consequential Provision) Regulations 2024 statutory instrument (SI) which:

• revokes several pieces of assimilated law
• makes amendments to existing legislation consequential on those revocations 

This document includes details of the:

• regulations that are being revoked 
• purpose of those regulations and why they are being revoked

The revocations in this SI include:

• legislation prescribing the format of rail accident investigation reports, which is overly bureaucratic and removes flexibility from the Rail Accidents Investigation Branch to tailor investigations to a particular circumstance
• provisions relating to EU rail technical standards which are no longer relevant following EU exit
• duplication and overly prescriptive requirements that apply to the access arrangements which govern operator access to the track and rail facilities

Published 8 February 2024