Transport (London) Act 1969

24 Amendments as to functions of traffic commissioners in Metropolitan Traffic Area

(1) The provisions of the Act of 1960 with respect to traffic commissioners for traffic areas other than the Metropolitan Traffic Area shall apply also to the Metropolitan Traffic Area; and accordingly section 122 of that Act (which provides for a single traffic commissioner for the Metropolitan Traffic Area) shall cease to have effect.

(2) Without prejudice to section 163 of the Act of 1960, section 120(1) of that Act shall not by reason of subsection (1) of this section operate to confer on the traffic commissioners for the Metropolitan Traffic Area powers and duties as regards licences to drive, or act as conductor of, public service vehicles.

(3) In its application to the traffic commissioners for the Metropolitan Traffic Area, section 121(4) of the Act of 1960 shall have effect as if—

(a) Greater London were a county and the Council were the council of that county ; and

(b) the City of London were a borough and the Common Council were the council of that borough.

(4) In the Act of 1960—

(a) in section 135(2) (which relates to the councils whose representations must be taken into consideration by traffic commissioners in granting or refusing a road service licence) after the word " by " in the last place where it occurs there shall be inserted the words " any of the following councils, namely, the Greater London Council, the council of any London borough, the Common Council of the City of London ";

(b) in section 135(7) (which relates to the persons to whom notice of a grant of a road service licence must be sent) for the words " the council of every " there shall be substituted the words " each of the following councils, namely, the Greater London Council, the council of any London borough, the Common Council of the City of London, the council of any " and for the word " every " in the last place where it occurs there shall be substituted the word " any ";

(c) in sections 135(8) and 163(1), for the words " traffic commissioner " wherever they occur there shall be substituted the words " traffic commissioners ";

(d) in section 143(2)(a) (which relates to the persons who may appeal against a refusal of the traffic commissioners to vary the conditions attached to a road service licence) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words " the Greater London Council, the council of any London borough, the Common Council of the City of London ".

(5) Any reference in any statutory provision passed or made before the coming into force of this section to the traffic commissioner for the Metropolitan Traffic Area shall be construed as a reference to the traffic commissioners for that area, or to the chairman of those commissioners, as the context may require.

(6) The person who on the appointed day for the purposes of this section is the traffic commissioner for the Metropolitan Traffic Area shall be deemed to have been appointed on that day under section 121 of the Act of 1960 as chairman of the traffic commissioners for that area and until the other two traffic commissioners for that area have been appointed under subsection (4) of that section may act alone for the purposes of the discharge of any functions of the traffic commissioners for that area.