In article , Peter Smyth
writes
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.

How about (on topic) the Railways Act 1921, which was very specific
about the companies it affected.

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Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article , John Rowland
writes
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,

Of course it can.

Most railway companies were created by specific Acts which overrode
previous generic Acts and Common Law. For example, by creating
Compulsory Purchase powers.

As another example, several people have had special Acts passed to
allow
them to marry when they would otherwise be forbidden as being too
closely related.

so how can
Crossrail be made exempt from the Railways Act?

By writing it into the Crossrail Act.

Crossrail won't be exempt from the Railways Act. But the Crossrail
Bill proposes to exempt any franchisees of Crossrail services from the
prohibition, in the Railways Act 1993, forbidding public bodies being
rail franchisees. This means TfL could be a Crossrail franchisee or so
could any other rail operator, public or private.

Isn't this where we started?

"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message
...
In article , John Rowland
writes

Most railway companies were created by specific Acts which overrode
previous generic Acts and Common Law. For example, by creating Compulsory
Purchase powers.

(snip)

IIRC, the current Severn Valley Railway used powers from the original 19th.
c. Act only a few years ago, to gain access over a neighbour's land

PH