Local Government Act 1972

186 Traffic and transportation functions. E+W

(1) . . . F1 the M1 Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Part II of that Schedule, being—

(a) amendments conferring on the councils of counties, and in certain cases also on the councils of districts, functions previously exercised outside Greater London by the councils of county boroughs (together with other local authorities),

(b) amendments extending the powers of parish and community councils in relation to parking places so as to empower them to provide, maintain, and regulate the use of off-street parking places for all classes of vehicles, as well as parking places for bicycles and motor cycles, and

(c) minor amendments and other amendments consequential on the establishment of new local authorities by or under this Act and on the provisions of this Act relating to highways.

(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3

(4) In section 2(5) of the M2 Vehicle and Driving Licences Act 1969 (certain local authorities enabled to exercise, on behalf of the Secretary of State, functions transferred to him under that Act) after the word “authority”, in the first two places where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words “or district council”.

(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(6) So much of section 6 of the M3 Transport Charges &c. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954 as requires the making of an order by the Secretary of State for the revision of any charges in connection with a ferry undertaking shall cease to have effect in relation to an undertaking operated by a local authority or a Passenger Transport Executive, and accordingly a local authority or Passenger Transport Executive operating any such ferry undertaking as is referred to in subsection (1)(c) of that section—

(a) may from time to time make such revision of any of the charges which they are authorised to demand in connection with the undertaking as seems to them appropriate; and

(b) may, if they think fit, determine that any such charges shall no longer be made;

and so much of section 1(2) of the M4 Ferries (Acquisition by Local Authorities) Act 1919 as requires the approval of the Secretary of State to any scale of tolls fixed by a local authority or to a determination by a local authority to free a ferry from tolls shall cease to have effect.

(7) In subsection (6) above, “local authority” includes any existing county borough or county district council and the Common Council.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words repealed by Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54, SIF 107:1) ss. 3(1)(2), 5, Sch. 1 Pt. I, Sch. 4 paras. 1, 2

F2 S. 186(2) repealed by Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act 1978 (c. 3, SIF 100:3), s. 12, Sch. 2

F3 S. 186(3) repealed by Transport Act 1980 (c. 34, SIF 107:1), s. 69, Sch. 9 Pt. I

F4 S. 186(5) repealed by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 139(3), Sch. 8

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of ss. 181(10), 186(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M1 1967 c. 76.

M2 1969 c. 27.

M3 1954 c. 64.

M4 1919 c. 75.