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Commencement Orders bringing provisions within this Act into force:
(1)The passenger transport areas established under section 9(1)(a)(i) of the TA 1968 are to be known as integrated transport areas.
(2)The metropolitan county passenger transport authorities established under section 28(1) of the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51) are to be known as Integrated Transport Authorities.
(3)In consequence of subsection (1), any reference in any enactment (whenever passed or made) to a passenger transport area in England and Wales is to be read as a reference to an integrated transport area.
(4)In consequence of subsection (2), any reference in any enactment (whenever passed or made) to—
(a)a metropolitan county passenger transport authority, or
(b)a Passenger Transport Authority for an area in England and Wales,
is to be read as a reference to an Integrated Transport Authority.
(5)Schedule 4 makes amendments consequential on subsections (1) and (2).
Those amendments do not affect the generality of subsections (3) and (4).
(6)In this Part—
(a)“ITA” means an Integrated Transport Authority for an integrated transport area in England,
(b)any reference to an ITA is a reference to an ITA for the purposes of Part 2 of the TA 1968,
(c)any reference to an integrated transport area is a reference to an integrated transport area in England for the purposes of that Part of that Act.
(7)Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Part to an ITA includes a reference to—
(a)an ITA established under section 28 of the Local Government Act 1985, and
(b)an ITA established under this Part.
(8)Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in any enactment (whenever passed or made) to an Integrated Transport Authority for a passenger transport area in England includes a reference to an ITA established under this Part.
(9)Accordingly, any reference in an enactment (whenever passed or made) which—
(a)is to a joint authority established under Part 4 of the Local Government Act 1985, and
(b)includes a reference to an Integrated Transport Authority established under section 28 of that Act,
includes a reference to an ITA established under this Part.
(10)Until subsections (1) and (2) of this section come into force, in any enactment (whenever passed or made)—
(a)any reference to an integrated transport area is to be read as a reference to a passenger transport area;
(b)any reference to an Integrated Transport Authority (or an ITA) is to be read as a reference to a Passenger Transport Authority (or a PTA).
(11)In this section “enactment” includes an enactment comprised in subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30)).
Commencement Information
I1S. 77 partly in force; s. 77(10) in force at Royal Assent see s. 134
I2S. 77 in force at 9.2.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/107, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 1
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