"John Rowland" wrote in message
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In article , Dave Arquati
writes

although the Railways Act 1993 prohibits public-sector
operators from being franchisees (how did SET get
around that?), the Crossrail Bill (Section 34) states that
that does not apply in this case, paving the way (theoretically)
for a public-sector operator run Crossrail services.

Parliament cannot bind its successors: *any* Act
can override any provision of previous legislation.

But Parliament can not make a named company exempt from some law, so how
can
Crossrail be made exempt from the Railways Act?

Parliament could make a named company exempt from a law if it wanted to.
Indeed there have been several Acts of Parliament that have only affected
one company, eg Barclays Group Reorganisation Act 2002, HSBC Investment
Banking Act 2002, Alliance & Leicester Group Treasury PLC (Transfer) Act
2001.

Peter Smyth