Part III U.K. Consultative Committees
Areas and members of existing Consultative CommitteesU.K.
8U.K.The areas for which under section six of the M1Transport Act 1947, there were Transport Users Consultative Committees immediately before the date on which section fifty-six of this Act (hereafter in this Part of this Schedule referred to as the principal section) comes into force shall, until the Minister otherwise directs, be the areas for which Area Committees are to be established under the principal section, and the persons who were immediately before that date chairmen and members of a Transport Users Consultative Committee for any such area shall, unless—
(a)they were appointed under paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of the said section six (which relates to persons nominated by the Commission), or
(b)the Minister otherwise directs,
constitute the Area Committee for that area under the principal section until the expiration of their appointments.
Marginal Citations
9, 10.U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 7 Pt. III paras. 9, 10 repealed by Transport Act 1968 (c. 73), Sch. 18 Pt. I
DirectionsU.K.
11(1)If when the principal section comes into force there is before the Minister a recommendation of the Central Transport Consultative Committee or the Transport Users Consultative Committee for Scotland or for Wales and Monmouthshire—U.K.
(a)with respect to any proposed closure, or
(b)with respect to any other matter,
the Minister may in connection with the closure, or with respect to the other matter dealt with in the recommendation, as the case may be, from time to time give to the Commission or to any Board such directions as he thinks fit.
(2)The principal section shall not apply to a closure in connection with which directions can be given under the foregoing sub-paragraph.
(3)If when the principal section comes into force the Commission are providing, or assisting in the provision of, alternative services in connection with a closure which has taken place before that date, the Minister may from time to time give to the Commission or the Board concerned such directions with respect to those services, or any other services in substitution for, or in addition to, those services, as he thinks fit.
(4)The Minister may refer to an Area Committee any matter relating to alternative services provided by or with the assistance of the Commission or a Board—
(a)in pursuance of a direction under this paragraph, or
(b)otherwise than in pursuance of such a direction, if a direction with respect to those services could have been given under this paragraph, or
(c)in connection with a closure which has taken place before the principal section comes into force,
and the Committee shall consider and report to the Minister on that matter.