Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article , Dave Arquati
writes
I actually had a brief look today at the bill itself when I should
have
been doing other things, and was interested to note that 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. So it will all be perfectly legal.

....except the European Communities Act 1972, if constitutional
theorists are to be believed, but this isn't really the right newsgroup
for a discussion of Diceyan theory...