Part 4: Aviation, Shipping and Rail Schedule 5: Aviation, Maritime and Rail Security Amendments to the Channel Tunnel (Security) Order 1994: information and directions
170.Paragraph 13 provides for amendments to information requirement and direction making powers conferred on the Secretary of State by the Channel Tunnel (Security) Order 1994 (“CTSO”). They largely mirror the amendments made to ASA by paragraph 9 and those made to AMSA by paragraph 12.
171.Paragraph 13(2) removes the requirement in article 11 of the CTSO for the Secretary of State to provide 7 days’ notice when making a request for information for the purposes of Channel Tunnel security from the Concessionaires of the Tunnel, the owners, operators and managers of Channel Tunnel trains and certain other categories of person connected to the operation of the Tunnel.
172.Paragraph 13(3) amends the Secretary of State’s direction making power in article 13 of the CTSO so as to enable directions to be made to owners, operators and managers of Channel Tunnel trains that trains may not be moved in or into the UK unless specified searches have been carried out.
173.Paragraph 13(4) amends article 36, which relates to the service of documents, including directions. The amendments mean that regulations may require a person to accept electronic service in a specified manner and form (such as by means of a specified computer system).
174.Paragraph 14 provides that, although the above amendments have been made by an Act of Parliament, any power to amend or revoke any provision of the CTSO by secondary legislation is unaffected, and can, therefore, apply to them.