Road Traffic Act 1930

90 Power of local authorities with respect to use of highways by public service vehicles and with respect to stations for such vehicles.

(1) A local authority may make orders for determining the highways which may or may not be used by public service vehicles in the area or in any part of the area of the authority and for fixing thereon stands for public service vehicles and as to the places at which such vehicles may stop for a longer time than is necessary for the taking up and setting down of passengers and as to the manner of using such stands and places.

(2) Where in pursuance of the powers conferred by section sixty-eight of the [15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 71.] Public Health Act, 1925, a local authority provide a parking place which may be used by public service vehicles, the local authority may, if it thinks fit—

(a) by order appoint that parking place as a station for such vehicles;

(b) by regulation declare that subsection (7) of that section (which prohibits persons employed in connection with vehicles within a parking place plying for hire or accepting passengers for hire) shall not apply to public service vehicles either absolutely or to such extent as may be specified in the regulation.

(3) Where a parking place is appointed under this section as a station for public service vehicles the local authority may

(a) with the consent of the Minister do all such things as are necessary to adapt the parking place for use as a station for public service vehicles, and in particular provide and maintain waiting-rooms, ticket offices and lavatories, and other similar accommodation, in connection therewith, and

(b) make reasonable charges for the use of, or let on hire to any person, any accommodation so provided; and

(c) make regulations as to the use of any such accommodation.

(4) Where any local authority propose to make an order under subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section, they shall cause notice of the proposal to be published in at least one newspaper circulating within their area, and every such notice shall specify the nature of the proposal and state that a copy of the draft order is open to inspection at a specified place, and specify the period, which shall not be less than twenty-eight days, within which any persons affected by the proposed order may send to the Minister and the local authority objections in writing.

(5) An order made under subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section shall be of no effect unless and until it is confirmed by the Minister, and the Minister before confirming any such order shall consider any objections sent as aforesaid, and shall consult with the commissioners for the traffic area in which the area or any part of the area of the local authority is situate.

(6) The Minister may confirm an order made under subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section either without modification or subject to such modifications as he thinks fit, or may refuse to confirm the order.

(7) An order made and confirmed under subsection (1) of this section unless previously revoked shall remain in operation for three years, but may be renewed from time to time for a like period, and may at any time be altered or revoked by an order made in like manner and subject to the like provisions as the original order.

(8) The confirmation of an order under subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section shall be evidence that the requirements of this section have been complied with.

(9) In subsection (1) of this section the expression "local authority" means as regards a county borough or an urban district having a population according to the last census for the time being of over twenty thousand, and any other urban or any rural district the council of which the Minister may by order declare to be a local authority for the purposes of this section, the council of the borough or district, and as regards any other area the council of the county.

(10) The purposes of this section shall be purposes for which a local authority may borrow in the case of a county council under the Local Government Act, 1888, and in the case of a borough or district council under and subject to the provisions of the Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1926.