Transport Act 1968

110 The Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council. U.K.

[F1 (1) There shall be a body to be known as the Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council consisting of a chairman and not less than twelve members appointed after consultation with the chairman of the Waterways Board.

(1A) The chairman of the Council shall be appointed by the Minister after consultation with the Scottish Ministers and the chairman of the Waterways Board.

(1B) Two of the members of the Council shall be appointed by the Scottish Ministers after consultation with the Minister and the chairman of the Waterways Board; and in making such appointments, the Scottish Ministers shall have regard to the desirability of appointing persons who appear to them to have special knowledge of Scotland.

(1C) The other members of the Council shall be appointed by the Minister after consultation with the chairman of the Waterways Board.

(1D) The members appointed to the Council–

(a) shall include persons who appear to the person making the appointment to have wide knowledge of, and interest in, the use of inland waterways for amenity or recreational purposes, including fishing; and

(b) may include not more than four persons who are members of the Waterways Board.]

(2) In addition to their functions under Schedule 13 to this Act, it shall be the function of the Council—

(a) to advise the Waterways Board and the Minister [F2 or, in relation to any waterway in Scotland, the Scottish Ministers] on any proposal to add to or reduce the cruising waterways;

(b) to consider, and, where it appears to them to be desirable, to make recommendations to the Waterways Board or the Minister [F3 or, in relation to any waterway in Scotland, the Scottish Ministers] with respect to, any other matter—

(i) affecting the use or development for amenity or recreational purposes, including fishing, of the cruising waterways;

(ii) with respect to the provision for those purposes of services or facilities in connection with those waterways or the commercial waterways,

being a matter which has been referred to the Council by the Board or the Minister [F4 or, as the case may be, the Scottish Ministers], which has been the subject of representations to the Council by any other person or which appears to the Council to be a matter to which consideration ought to be given.

(3) The Council shall not make recommendations to the Minister [F5 or, as the case may be, the Scottish Ministers] with respect to any matter under this section without first consulting with the Board about that matter.

(4) The persons appointed to be members of the Council shall hold and vacate office in accordance with their terms of appointment and shall, on ceasing to hold office, be eligible for reappointment; but any such person may at any time by notice in writing to [F6 the person who made the appointment] resign his office.

(5) The Council may, with the approval of the Minister [F7 , and after consultation with the Scottish Ministers,], appoint such regional committees, and may appoint such other committees, as they think fit; and the procedure of the Council and of any such committee, including the quorum at meetings, shall be such as may be determined by the Council.

(6) The Waterways Board shall provide the Council with such officers and servants and such accommodation as appear to the Board to be requisite for the proper discharge of the Council’s functions or as may be directed by the Minister; and the said Board may pay to the members of the Council allowances in respect of loss of remunerative time in accordance with a scale approved by the Minister with the consent of the Treasury and such travelling allowances and allowances in respect of out-of-pocket expenses as the Board may determine.

[F8 (7) The Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, pay the chairman of the Council out of money provided by Parliament such remuneration as the Secretary of State may determine; and where the chairman is in receipt of such remuneration he shall not be paid any allowance under subsection (6) of this section in respect of loss of remunerative time.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 110(1)-(1D) substituted (1.4.2001) for s. 110(1) by S.I. 2000/3251, arts. 1(2)(b), 2, Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 2(2) (with art. 4)

F2 Words in s. 110(2)(a) inserted (1.4.2001) by S.I. 2000/3251, arts. 1(2)(b), 2, Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 2(3) (with art. 4)

F3 Words in s. 110(2)(b) inserted (1.4.2001) by S.I. 2000/3251, arts. 1(2)(b), 2, Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 2(4) (with art. 4)

F4 Words in s. 110(2) inserted (1.4.2001) by S.I. 2000/3251, arts. 1(2)(b), 2, Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 2(5) (with art. 4)

F5 Words in s. 110(3) inserted (1.4.2001) by S.I. 2000/3251, arts. 1(2)(b), 2, Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 2(6) (with art. 4)

F6 Words in s. 110(4) substituted (1.4.2001) by S.I. 2000/3251, arts. 1(2)(b), 2, Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 2(7) (with art. 4)

F7 Words in s. 110(5) inserted (1.4.2001) by S.I. 2000/3251, arts. 1(2)(b), 2, Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 2(8) (with art. 4)

F8 S. 110(7) inserted by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), s. 155