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Part II Integrated Transport Areas and Passenger Transport Areas
Reorganisation of passenger transport in Integrated Transport Areas or Passenger Transport Areas
Part III Bus and Ferry Services
National Bus Company and Scottish Transport Group
24. Establishment and general duties of Bus Company and Scottish Group.
27. Financial provisions with respect to Bus Company and Scottish Group.
28. Transfer to Bus Company or Scottish Group of certain securities, rights and liabilities.
29. Transfer of certain property, rights and liabilities between Railways Board and Bus Company or Scottish Group.
Part IV Further Provisions as to Boards, New Authorities and Transport Services
Additional financial provisions with respect to Boards and new authorities
Miscellaneous further provisions with respect to transport services
55. Amendments as to Passengers’ Council and London Transport Users’ Committee .
56. Assistance by Minister or local authority towards capital expenditure on public transport facilities.
57. Grants for research or development in connection with transport services, etc.
57A. Grants for research or development in connection with transport services by inland waterways in Scotland
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60. Users of certain goods vehicles to hold operators’ licences.
66. Conditions as to matters required to be notified to licensing authority.
67. Duration of operators’ licences and grant of interim licences.
69. Revocation, suspension and curtailment of operators’ licences.
69A. Operating centres for authorised vehicles to be specified in operators’ licences.
69B. Objection to, or refusal or modification of, applications for operators’ licences on environmental grounds.
69D. Variation of operators’ licences with respect to operating centres and conditions affecting their use, etc.
69E. Publication of notice of applications for licences and variations in localities affected.
97B.(1) Where recording equipment is installed in a vehicle to...
99ZA.Inspection of records and other documents and data relating to recording equipment
99ZC.Sections 99ZA and 99ZB: supplementary (1) Where an officer makes...
99ZD.Offence of failing to comply with requirements or obstructing an...
99ZF.Power to seize documents (1) If an officer has reason...
102. Application to the Crown and exemption for police and fire brigade.
102A. Exclusion of application to tramcars and trolley vehicles.
103. Interpretation, supplementary provisions, etc., for Part VI.
Other inland waterway provisions
112. Power to extinguish statutory rights and obligations in respect of canals not comprised in undertaking of Board or Canal & River Trust.
113. Byelaws in respect of waterways owned or managed by certain bodies.
114. Power of local authorities to assist in maintaining waterways for amenity purposes.
Part VIII Bridges, Level Crossings, etc.
116. Transfer of responsibility for maintenance of highways on bridges over certain railways, inland waterways, etc.
118. Duty of highway authorities, etc., as respects bridges over certain railways or inland waterways.
119. Ending of liability ... to make payments on being relieved of responsibility for bridges carrying trunk or special roads.
121. Application of foregoing sections to other undertakers.
Part X Miscellaneous and General
134. Duty to act in certain cases as body engaged in commercial enterprise.
139. Land required as service area for special road: compensation in certain cases of compulsory acquisition.
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144. Transfer and disposal of historical records and relics.
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SCHEDULES
Commencing Capital Debts of New Authorities
1.Each of the new authorities shall severally assume a commencing...
2.For the purposes of any period between the day appointed...
3.Without prejudice to section 53(5) of this Act, the Minister...
4.The Minister’s power to make an order under paragraph 1...
5.In the application of this Schedule or section 39(6) and...
Supplementary Provisions as to certain Transfers of Property, Rights and Liabilities
Passenger Transport Executives
Matters which may be dealt with by order under s. 9(1)
6.The proceedings of the Authority and the Executive respectively.
7.The establishment by the Authority and the Executive respectively of...
8.The delegation of functions by the Authority or the Executive...
9.The authentication of documents of the Authority and the Executive...
10.The appointment by, or provision by the Executive for, the...
11.Provision— (a) for treating the Authority or any subsidiary of...
12.The provision of accommodation for the Authority by the Authority...
13.Provision applying, with or without modifications, to the Authority or...
14.The making of reports and the furnishing of information by...
17.Provision, as respects any period before the Authority appoint or...
New Bus Grants—Supplementary Provisions
Application to Northern Ireland
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3.In section 135(4)(b), for the reference to a tribunal established...
4.In section 137(3)(a) and (4), the references to the Secretary...
8.An arbitrator for the purposes of paragraph 13(3) of Schedule...
9.References to enactments or statutory provisions include references to enactments...
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