Transport Act 1962

70 Transport police constables

(1) Section fifty-three of the British Transport Commission Act, 1949, shall be amended as follows:

(2) Any premises transferred or leased to the Hotel Company before the vesting date shall until the vesting date be regarded for the purpose of the section as belonging to the Commission.

(3) For the first two references in subsection (1) of the section to the Commission there shall be substituted—

(a) during the interim period, references to the Railways Board, and

(b) thereafter, references to any of the Boards acting jointly or separately in pursuance of a scheme under section sixty-nine of this Act.

(4) On and after the vesting date for references in the section to premises belonging to, leased to or worked by the Commission there shall be substituted references to premises belonging to, leased to or worked by any of the Boards or the Hotel Company, and in the proviso to paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of the section for the reference to matters in connection with or affecting the Commission or their undertaking there shall be substituted a reference to matters in connection with or affecting any of the Boards or their undertakings.

(5) On and after the vesting date a Board may dismiss a constable who is employed by them (whether or not appointed after the vesting date) and, accordingly, in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of the section for references to the Commission there shall, as regards such a constable employed by a Board (or two or more Boards jointly), be substituted a reference to that Board (or those Boards), and for the reference at the end of the said paragraph (c) to the authority by whom a constable was dismissed or by whom a constable's resignation is accepted there shall, in the case of a constable dismissed by the Commission, or whose resignation was accepted by the Commission, be substituted—

(a) during the interim period, a reference to the Railways Board, and

(b) thereafter, a reference to any of the Boards acting jointly or separately in pursuance of a scheme under section sixty-nine of this Act.

(6) On and after the vesting date references in any statutory provision or other document to a constable appointed or employed by the Commission shall be taken as a reference to a constable employed by any of the Boards and acting under the said section fifty-three.

(7) In this section " the interim period " means the period referred to in subsection (9) of section sixty-nine of this Act.