Transport Act 1962

8 London Board's road services outside London

(1) The London Board shall have power to carry passengers outside the London Passenger Transport Area by stage or express carriage—

(a) on roads within a radius of ten miles, or in the county of Kent five miles, from any point on the boundary of the London Passenger Transport Area, and

(b) on the London Transport Executive's routes (so far as they extend beyond the limits specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection), and

(c) with the consent of the Minister, by any service beyond the limits specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection.

The Minister shall not give his consent under paragraph (c) of this subsection unless he is satisfied that there are exceptional circumstances which make it desirable that the Board should carry passengers on a particular route outside the said limits.

(2) The London Board shall have power to carry passengers outside the London Passenger Transport Area by contract carriage—

(a) on roads within a radius of ten miles, or in the county of Kent five miles, from any point on the boundary of the London Passenger Transport Area, and

(b) where the passengers consist of a pleasure party of persons employed by the Board, with or without their families or friends, on roads within a radius of one hundred miles from Charing Cross.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be taken as exempting the London Board from any of the requirements of Part III of the Road Traffic Act, 1960, or of those requirements as extended by Part IV of this Act.

(4) Except as provided by this section the Board shall not have power to carry passengers by road outside the London Passenger Transport Area.

(5) In this section the expression " the London Transport Executive's routes " means such routes as the Minister may by order contained in a statutory instrument certify to be the routes on which the London Transport Executive had, at any time in the period of twelve months ending on the second day of November, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, power to carry passengers by stage or express carriage.

For the purposes of this subsection any power to carry passengers in accordance with a working agreement which was made in pursuance of section eighteen of the London Passenger Transport Act, 1933, and to which the Commission became a party by virtue of Part II of the Transport Act, 1947, shall be left out of account.

(6) Any order under the last foregoing subsection shall be made not later than the vesting date.