The Sub-national Transport Body (Transport for the North) Regulations 2018

Incidental

19.—(1) Section 9(5) of the Transport Act 1968(1) (power to provide services within passenger transport areas) has effect as if—

(a) after “combined authority area” there were inserted “or the area of Transport for the North”, and

(b) after “subsidiary of the Executive,” there were inserted “or Transport for the North (as the case may be)”.

(2) Section 1 of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970(2) has effect as if TfN were a local authority for the purposes of that section.

(3) The following provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 (3) have effect as if TfN were a local authority for the purposes of those provisions—

(a) section 113 (secondment of staff)(4);

(b) section 116 (member of TfN not to be appointed as officer)(5);

(c) section 117 (disclosure by officers of interests in contracts)(6);

(d) section 135 (standing orders for contracts);

(e) section 142(2) (provision of information)(7);

(f) section 222 (power to investigate and defend legal proceedings)(8);

(g) section 239 (power to promote or oppose a local or personal Bill)(9).

(4) Sections 120, 121 and 123 of that Act (acquisition and disposal of land) have effect as if—

(a) TfN were a principal council;

(b) section 120(1)(b) were omitted;

(c) section 121(2)(a) were omitted.

(5) Section 29 of the Localism Act 2011 (registers of interests) has effect as if—

(a) TfN were a relevant authority, and

(b) references to “the monitoring officer” were references to an officer appointed by TfN for the purposes of that section.

(6) In the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013(10)—

(a) in Schedule 2 (scheme employers), in Part 2 (employers able to designate employees to be in scheme), after paragraph 14 insert—

“15.   Transport for the North.”;

(b) in Schedule 3 (administering authorities), in the table in Part 2 (appropriate administering authorities for categories of scheme members), at the end insert—

“An employee of Transport for the North	Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council”

(1)

1968 c. 73; section 9(5) was amended by the Transport Act 1985 (c.67), sections 57(1)(b) and 58(2)(c), the Local Transport Act 2008 (c.26), Schedule 4, paragraph 2, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/908), Schedule 2, paragraph 5 and the Combined Authorities (Consequential Amendments) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/866), Schedule, paragraph 2(5).

(2)

1970 c. 39; section 1 was amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (c.70), Schedule 30, the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.65), Schedule 27, paragraph 195, the Local Government Act 1985 (c.51), sections 1, 102 and 84, Schedule 14, paragraph 47 and Schedule 17, the Education Reform Act 1988 (c.40), sections 231(7), 235(6), 237(2) and Schedule 13, Part 1, the Housing Act 1988 (c.50), section 89(2), the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (c.4), sections 21, 23(2), 27(2) and Schedule 6, paragraph 8, the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c.19), section 25(8), the Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994 (c.29), Schedule 4, paragraph 5, the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39), Schedule 13, paragraph 84, the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c.29), section 388, the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c.16), Schedule 7, part 5, paragraph 1, the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c.28), Schedule 13, paragraph 29, the Offender Management Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/912), Schedule 1, part 1, paragraph 4(2), the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c.20), Schedule 6, paragraph 9, the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13), Schedule 16, paragraph 94, the Localism Act 2011 (c.20), Schedule 20, paragraph 1 and Schedule 22, paragraph 2, the Deregulation Act 2015 (c.20), Schedule 13, paragraph 6(6) and the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c.3), Schedule 1, paragraph 22

(3)

1972 c. 70.

(4)

Section 113 was amended by the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c.32), Schedule 4, paragraph 151(1), the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19), Schedule 9, paragraph 13, the Health Act 1999 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/90), Schedule 1, paragraph 10(a), the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2469), Schedule 1, paragraph 7, the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c.43), Schedule 4, paragraph 18, the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c.43), Schedule 1, paragraph 51(a), the References to Health Authorities Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/961), Schedule, paragraph 8(2), the Health and Social care Act 2012 (c.7), Schedule 5, paragraph 17, Schedule 7, paragraph 3 and Schedule 17, paragraph 3,

(5)

Section 116 was amended by the Local Government Act 1985 (c.51), section 102 and Schedule 17 and, in relation to England, by the Local Authorities (Executive and Alternative Arrangements) (Modification of Enactments and Other Provisions) (England) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/2237), article 8.

(6)

Section 117 was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48), sections 38 and 46.

(7)

Section 142(2) was amended by the Local Government Act 1986 (c.10), section 3(1).

(8)

Section 222 was amended by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c.29), Schedule 29, paragraph 20 and the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c.3), Schedule 1, paragraph 26.

(9)

Section 239 was amended by the Local Government Act 1985 (c.51), Schedule 14, paragraph 32, the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c.28), Schedule 13, paragraph 23, the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c.20), Schedule 6, paragraph 37, the Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 4), Schedule 1, paragraph 1(10) and the Deregulation Act 2015 (c.20), Schedule 13, paragraph 6(7)(u).

(10)

S.I. 2013/2356.