Transport Act 1983

[F1 4 Approval of financial plans and determination of revenue grants. E+W

(1) An Authority shall in each year approve with or without modification the plan submitted to them in that year under section 3 above and, in the light of the provisions of the plan as so approved, determine the amount of the revenue grants, if any, to be made by them to the Executive in the first year of the relevant period.

(2) For the purposes of this section the Authority may require the Executive to supply them with—

(a) alternative proposals based on different levels of services, facilities, fares or other charges, or on the assumption that the Authority will in the relevant period make revenue grants of such amounts as the Authority may specify;

(b) estimates of the extent to which particular benefits, specified by the Authority, would accrue to the public at large, or to any section of the public so specified, as a result of the making of any such grants as are mentioned in section 3(3) or (as the case may be) paragraph (a) above; and

(c) such other information as the Authority may specify, including information as to the cost of providing, or arranging the provision by other persons of, services and facilities additional to those proposed in the plan [F2 or (as the case may be) as to the cost of requiring under any such scheme as is mentioned in section 3(1)(c) above the provision of travel concessions at a level higher than, or differently structured from, the level and structure of such concessions for which that scheme currently provides.]

(3) In determining whether to approve a plan in a form which would involve the making by the Authority of revenue grants in the relevant period the Authority shall have particular regard to—

(a) the matters referred to in paragraphs (a) to [F3 (d)] of subsection (4) of section 3 above;

(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(c) the need to achieve a proper balance between the interests of the ratepayers in their area and the interests of transport users.

(4)—(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4 ]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 4 shall cease to have effect (1.2.2001 for E. and 1.8.2001 for W.) by virtue of 2000 c. 38, s. 159; S.I. 2001/57, art. 3, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with Sch. 3 Pt. II); S.I. 2001/2788, art. 2, Sch. 1 para. 10 and repealed (1.2.2001 for E. and otherwiseprosp.) by 2000 c. 38, ss. 274, 275, Sch. 31 Pt. II; S.I. 2001/57, art. 3, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with Sch. 3 Pt. II)

F2 Words added by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 102(2)(a)

F3 “(d)” substituted by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 102(2)(b)

F4 S. 4(3)(b)(4)(5)(6) repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 39, 102(2), Sch. 12 para. 5(3)(5), Sch. 17