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The Railway Closure (Exclusion) (Hairmyres) Order 2025

Type Scottish-Statutory-Instrument

Publication 2025-03-19

State In force

Jurisdiction Scotland

Department King's Printer for Scotland

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Made: 19th March 2025

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 21st March 2025

Coming into force: 18th May 2025

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 38(1)(c) of the Railways Act 2005[^f00001] and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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(1) This Order may be cited as the Railway Closure (Exclusion) (Hairmyres) Order 2025 and comes into force on 18 May 2025.

(2) In this Order, “the station at Hairmyres” means the railway station situated adjacent to Eaglesham Crescent, Hairmyres, South Lanarkshire, G75 8SW.

Exclusion from application of section 30 of the Railways Act 2005

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The station at Hairmyres is excluded from the application of section 30[^f00002] of the Railways Act 2005.

Signed

FIONA HYSLOP — A member of the Scottish Government — 19th March 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 30 of the Railways Act 2005 provides for a closure procedure where there is a proposal by a funding authority to close a station. Section 38 of that Act enables the exclusion of stations from that procedure and article 2 of this Order excludes the station at Hairmyres, in the local government area of South Lanarkshire, from the procedure. The station at Hairmyres is being relocated as part of the East Kilbride Enhancement Project.

No Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared for this Order as no impact upon business, charities or voluntary bodies is foreseen.

A Childs Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment has been prepared and can be viewed at https://www.legislation.gov.uk.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2005 c. 14.

[^f00002]: Section 30 was amended by S.I. 2015/1682 and S.I. 2018/631.

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