Version Superseded: 01/04/2018
Point in time view as at 27/04/2017. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Transport Act 2000, Section 272 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 03 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)The Secretary of State may make grants or other payments for the purpose of securing or encouraging the carriage of goods by inland waterway or by sea rather than by road where he is satisfied that that is in the public interest.
(2)Grants or payments under this section may in particular be made in respect of facilities for or in connection with the carriage of goods by inland waterway or by sea (including facilities for loading or unloading goods).
(3)Grants or payments under this section shall be of such amount and subject to such conditions (including conditions requiring their repayment in specified circumstances) as the Secretary of State may determine.
(4)So far as it relates to inland waterways in Wales the power conferred by this section is a power of the National Assembly for Wales.
(5)The power conferred by this section may only be exercised in or as regards Scotland if its exercise relates to reserved matters within the meaning of the M1Scotland Act 1998.
(6)In this section “inland waterway” includes both a natural and an artificial inland waterway.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 272 functions made exercisable (28.2.2003) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/415), arts. 1(1), 3 (with art. 5)
Commencement Information
I1S. 272 wholly in force at 1.2.2001, see s. 275(1)(2) and S.I. 2001/57, art. 3(1), Sch. 2 Pt. I (subject to the transitional provision and saving in Sch. 2 Pt. II)
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