London Regional Transport Act 1984 (repealed)

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(1) London Regional Transport shall so perform their functions as to ensure so far as practicable that the combined revenues of London Regional Transport and any subsidiaries of theirs are not less than sufficient to meet their combined charges properly chargeable to revenue account, taking one accounting year with another.

(2) In respect of each accounting year of London Regional Transport, London Regional Transport shall charge to revenue account, and secure that any subsidiary of theirs so charges, all charges which are proper to be made to revenue account, including, in particular, proper provision for the depreciation or renewal of assets.

(3) The Secretary of State may from time to time, after consultation with London Regional Transport and with the approval of the Treasury, give to London Regional Transport directions—

(a) requiring London Regional Transport to allocate to reserve for a particular purpose, or to cause any of their subsidiaries so to allocate, either a specified amount or such amount as London Regional Transport consider adequate;

(b) with respect to the transfer of any amount from one reserve to another; or

(c) with respect to the application by London Regional Transport or any of their subsidiaries of amounts allocated to reserve.

(4) Directions under subsection (3) above requiring the allocation of any amount to reserve may provide for it to be so allocated either at a specified time or during the course of a specified period.

(5) Subject to subsection (6) below, London Regional Transport may, with the consent of the Secretary of State given with the approval of the Treasury, make charges to capital account representing interest on expenditure of a capital nature (including expenditure of a capital nature incured before the appointed day).

(6) The interest on expenditure represented by charges made under subsection (5) above must be interest for a period which ends on or before the end of the accounting year of London Regional Transport in which the project or scheme to which the expenditure relates is in the opinion of the Secretary of State completed.

(7) If in respect of any accounting year there is an excess of the revenues of London Regional Transport over the total charges properly chargeable by them to revenue account, the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, require that excess, so far as it appears to him, after consultation with London Regional Transport, to be surplus to the requirements of London Regional Transport, to be paid over to the Secretary of State.

(8) Any sums received by the Secretary of State under subsection (7) above shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

(9) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (7) above, the revenues of London Regional Transport are to be taken as including any sums received by them by way of grants under section 12 of this Act which are entered in their revenue account; but where any sums so entered are applied in making payments which London Regional Transport have power to make (under that section or otherwise) to a subsidiary of theirs or to any other person, those payments are charges properly chargeable to their revenue account for the purposes of those subsections.

(10) For the purposes of subsection (1) above, the revenues of any subsidiary of London Regional Transport are to be taken as including any such payments from London Regional Transport as are mentioned in subsection (9) above which are entered in that subsidiary’s revenue account.

(11) A company which would not otherwise be a subsidiary of London Regional Transport shall not be treated as such for the purposes of this section by virtue of section 62 of this Act.

Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation

F1 Act repealed (prosp.) by 1999 c. 29, ss. 423, 425(2), Sch. 34 Pt. II (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1))