The Contracting Out (Highway Functions) Order 2008

27.  Functions conferred on the Secretary of State or a local highway authority, by or under section 5(1) or (2) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953(1) (consents to exercise of powers under section 4 (provision of omnibus shelters, etc)).

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1953 c.26. All functions of a Minister of the Crown under this Act (“the 1953 Act”), except under section 8(3), so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2 and Schedule 1. Following the repeal of the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c.38), sections 22 and 155(2), that Order has effect as if made under the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32) (“the 2006 Act”), sections 58 and 158(3), by virtue of Schedule 11, paragraph 26(1) and (3), to that Act. The functions of the National Assembly for Wales under the 1953 Act are transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of the 2006 Act, Schedule 11, paragraph 30. Section 4(4) of the 1953 Act was amended by the Transport Act 1980 (c.34), section 43 and Schedule 5, Part II and by the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 (c.14), section 88 and Schedule 7, paragraph 1.