18 Access agreements: contracts requiring the approval of [the Office of Rail and Road]
Railways Act 1993 (1993 c 43) | Legislation

18  Access agreements: contracts requiring the approval of [the Office of Rail and Road]

(1)     A facility owner shall not enter into an access contract to which this section applies unless—

(a)     he does so pursuant to directions under section 17 above; . . .

(b)     [the Office of Rail and Road] has approved the terms of the access contract and the facility owner enters into the contract pursuant to directions under this section; [or

(c)     the access contract is of a class or description specified in a general approval given by [the Office of Rail and Road];]

and any access contract to which this section applies [shall be void unless one of the conditions in paragraphs (a) to (c) above is satisfied].

(2)     The access contracts to which this section applies are those under which the beneficiary obtains, or, in the case of an access contract conferring an access option, may obtain, (whether for himself alone or for himself and associates of his)—

(a)     from a facility owner whose railway facility is track, permission to use that track for the purpose of the operation of trains on that track by the beneficiary;

(b)     from a facility owner whose railway facility

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