3. Subject to article 11, exemption is granted to TfGM and to the Contractor from the requirement in section 6 of the 1993 Act (prohibition on unauthorised operators of railway assets) to be authorised by licence to be the operator, as applicable, of the Metrolink network, a Metrolink depot, a Metrolink station and a train to the extent that it is used on the Metrolink network.