Section 15

the extent, hours and general level of services;

the security and safety of persons using or engaged in work on the rapid transit system;

the maintenance and operation of the railway relating to the rapid transit system;

the deposit of security or bank guarantee to the satisfaction of the Authority for the due performance by the licensee of all or any obligations imposed upon it by the licence or by this Act;

the control and restriction, directly or indirectly, on the creation, holding or disposal of shares in the licensee or its shareholders, or of interests in the undertaking of the licensee or any part thereof;

the restriction on the carrying on by the licensee of any trade or business not related to the activity which the licensee is authorised by its licence to carry on; and

the standards of performance to be complied by the licensee in the maintenance or operation of the rapid transit system or the provision of rapid transit system services.

may require the licensee to enter into any agreement with any person for such purposes as may be specified in the conditions of the licence, such as but not limited to any matter which is dealt with (whether in the same or different manner) by an access contract;

may include provision for determining the terms on which such agreements are to be entered into, which may be such conditions as may be agreed to by the licensee and such other persons or, in default of agreement, as may be determined by the Authority;

may include conditions which must be complied with before the licence can be transferred or assigned;

may require the licensee —

to comply with any requirements from time to time imposed by the Authority (or a person nominated by the Authority for this purpose) with respect to the matters concerning the operation or maintenance of the rapid transit system that are specified, or are of a description specified, in the licence;

except insofar as the Authority (or a person nominated by the Authority for this purpose) consents to the licensee doing or not doing them, to do, or not to do, the things that are specified, or are of a description specified, in the licence;

to refer for determination by a person nominated by the Authority for this purpose the questions arising under the licence that are specified, or are of a description specified, in the licence; or

to furnish to the Authority (or a person nominated by the Authority for this purpose) any documents or other information that the Authority may require for the purpose of exercising any functions conferred or imposed on the Authority or person under or by virtue of the licence or this Act;

may contain provision for the conditions to cease to have effect or be modified at the times, in the manner and in the circumstances specified in or determined by or under the conditions; and any provision included by virtue of this paragraph in a licence has effect in addition to section 16 with respect to the modification of the conditions of a licence;

may require the licensee —

to operate or maintain any extension of the rapid transit system or part thereof; or

to maintain any railway commuter facility within the vicinity of a station that is part of the rapid transit system, and any other premises, facilities and structures used as, or for the purposes of, or otherwise reasonably necessary for or incidental to operating the rapid transit system;

may require the licensee to acquire from such person as may be specified in the licence, and to use, such property or rights as may be so specified, or to undertake such liabilities as may be so specified;

may require the licensee to prepare itself to deal with any plague or epidemic, fire, flood, earthquake or disaster (natural or otherwise) or any public emergency; and

may require the licensee to provide travel information systems and directional signs for the purpose of ensuring integration of the rapid transit system with transport services and facilities and developments surrounding the rapid transit systems operated by the licensee so as to enhance railway passenger services.

a contract under which a person, and so far as may be appropriate, an associate of that person, obtains permission from a facility owner to use the facility owner’s railway facility; or

a contract conferring an option to require a facility owner to secure that a person, and so far as may be appropriate, an associate of that person, obtains permission from the facility owner to use the facility owner’s railway facility;

any employee, agent or independent contractor of the person;

any passenger of the person;

any person engaged in the provision of goods or services to or for the person; or

any other person who deals or has business with the person;

who has an estate or interest in, or right over, any track, station or depot of a rapid transit system; and

whose permission to use that track, station or depot is needed by another before that other may use it;