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121 Objections to withdrawal of bus substitution service.E+W+S
(1)Where a notice has been published by the Railways Board under section 120(1) of this Act, any user of any service affected and any body representing such users may within the period specified in the notice lodge with the appropriate Area Committee an objection in writing.
(2)Where such an objection is lodged the committee shall immediately inform the Secretary of State and the Board.
(3)A committee with whom an objection has been lodged under subsection (1) above shall consider the objection and any representations made by the Board and report to the Secretary of State as soon as possible on the hardship, if any, which they consider will be caused by the proposed withdrawal of service, and the report may contain proposals for alleviating that hardship.
(4)The Secretary of State may require a further report from any committee making a report to him under subsection (3) above.
(5)Copies of every report under subsection (3) or (4) above shall be sent to the Central Committee and to the Board.
(6)Where, in the case of any withdrawal of service to which section 120(5) or (7) of this Act applies, notice of the withdrawal has been published under subsection (1) of that section, the Executive concerned may, within the period specified in the notice for objecting to the withdrawal, lodge with the Secretary of State a statement in writing that they oppose the withdrawal and of their reasons for opposing it.
The fact that the Executive concerned gave their consent to the publication of the notice shall not affect their right under this subsection to oppose the withdrawal of service.
(7)Where the Executive for any passenger transport area lodge such a statement with the Secretary of State they shall send a copy of that statement to the Board.
(8)References above in this section to a notice published under section 120(1) of this Act do not include a notice which under subsection (6) of that section is of no effect.
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