London Passenger Transport Act 1933

Section 36.

NINTH SCHEDULE Provisions with respect to the Railway Rates Tribunal.

1 For the purpose of the exercise of the functions of the tribunal under this Act, two additional members shall be added to the tribunal, of whom one shall be a person having experience in matters relating to local government in London, to be appointed by the Minister after consultation with the Advisory Committee, and one shall be a person having experience in financial affairs to be appointed by the Minister, but neither of whom need be a member of either of the panels constituted under section twenty-four of the Railways Act, 1921.

2 An additional member of the tribunal shall hold office for such term not less than three years nor longer than seven years as the Minister may determine at the time of his appointment but on vacating his office after expiration of the term thereof he shall be eligible for re-appointment. ,

3 If an additional member becomes, by reason of illness or other infirmity, temporarily incapable of performing the duties of his office, or if the office of an additional member is vacated before the expiration of his term of office, the Minister may appoint some other fit person with the like qualifications and, in the case of the additional member appointed after consultation with the Advisory Committee, after the like consultation, to discharge his duties during such incapacity or pending the filling up of such vacancy for any period not exceeding six months at one time and the person so appointed shall during that period have the same powers as the additional member in whose place he is appointed.

4 Section twenty-one, subsections (1) and (2) of section twenty-two, section twenty-four except subsection (4) thereof, and section twenty-five of the Railways Act, 1921, shall apply with respect to the functions of the tribunal under this Act as they apply for the purposes of that Act, subject, however, to the following modifications, namely, that—

(a) in subsection (2) of the said section twenty-one, for the words " the amalgamated companies " there shall be substituted the words " the Board and the amalgamated railway companies " ; and

(b) in subsection (1) of the said section twenty-two the words " the Lord President of the Court of Session " and the words " other than disputes between two or more railway companies " shall be omitted; and

(c) no appeal shall lie from any decision of the tribunal under this Act.

5 The annual report of their proceedings under the Railways Act, 1921, made by the tribunal to the Minister under subsection (3) of section twenty-two of that Act, and laid before Parliament, shall include a report of their proceedings under this Act.