Version Superseded: 08/03/1994
Point in time view as at 01/02/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Transport Act 1962, Section 71.
(1)If any of the Boards in pursuance of a scheme under section sixty-nine of this Act arrange to establish a joint police force consisting of constables appointed under section fifty-three of the M1British Transport Commission Act 1949, they shall also arrange to establish a conference consisting of an equal number of representatives of those Boards on the one hand and of the members of the police force on the other hand, to which all questions relating to rates of pay, hours of duty and conditions of service of members of the police force shall be referred.
(2)If and so long as any Board in pursuance of a scheme under section sixty-nine of this Act employ a separate police force consisting of constables appointed under the said section fifty-three, that Board shall arrange for the establishment of a separate conference consisting of an equal number of representatives of the Board and of the members of their police force to which all questions relating to rates of pay, hours of duty and conditions of service of members of the police force shall be referred.
(3)If and so long as there are two or more conferences established under the foregoing provisions of this section (hereinafter referred to as constituent conferences), the Boards concerned shall arrange for the establishment of a central conference which shall consist of an equal number of representatives of those Boards on the one hand, and of their police forces on the other hand, elected from the constituent conferences, and there shall be an appeal from the constituent conferences to the central conference.
(4)In the event of disagreement between the two sides of a conference established under this section (except a conference from which an appeal lies to a central conference), an independent chairman shall be appointed with power to give decisions which shall have effect as decisions of the conference, the said chairman to be chosen by mutual agreement or failing agreement to be nominated by [F1the Secretary of State].
(5)On the coming into force of this section any arrangements made in pursuance of section ninety-seven of the M2Transport Act 1947 (which contains provisions corresponding to those of this section), shall cease to have effect.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by virtue of S. I. 1968/729, arts. 2(1), 3(2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Power to modify s. 71 conferred by Transport Act 1978 (c. 73), Sch. 16 para. 5(4)
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