Clause 4
Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Bill
11:45 am
Stephen Hammond (Shadow Minister, Transport; Wimbledon, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 4, in clause 4, page 2, line 7, after ‘be’, insert
‘, consistent with the relevant terms of any license fee payable by other operators of railway assets under section 8 of the Railways Act 1993, and.’.
We obviously had some discussion about this point during the oral evidence session. The clause gives the regulator the right to charge the operator of High Speed 1 a fee for carrying out its functions. If we look at the intention of the clause as set out in the explanatory notes, we see that it is not carried through fully into the Bill. It allows the ORR to charge those operating CTRL a fee by reference to the cost that it reasonably incurs.