14 Repeals, adaptations and savings.E+W+S

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(2)So much of any statutory provision (including any local Act passed at any time in the present session of Parliament) passed or made with respect to any particular undertaking providing services to which section one of this Act applies or with respect to which section two of this Act has effect, or applied to any such undertaking by any statutory provision so passed or made, as has the effect of—

(a)fixing or regulating, or providing for the fixing or approval of, or prescribing a procedure for the revision of, or conferring any discretion upon the undertakers as to, the charges to be made for passengers on any of those services or any category of those services or any stage of any of those services; or

(b)restricting the discretion of the undertakers as to the stages which may be appointed on any route or service; or

(c)restricting the discretion of the undertakers as to the making of charges, and the amount of any charges to be made, for the carriage on any of those services of dogs or other animals, luggage, parcels, or other goods or articles (where and to the extent that such carriage is authorised),

and so much of any agreement such as is mentioned in subsection (5) of section one of this Act as has such an effect shall cease to have effect with respect to that undertaking:

Provided that—

(i)

without prejudice to the provisions of section eight of this Act, in this subsection the expression “statutory provision” does not include an order such as is referred to in the said section eight; and

(ii)

nothing in this subsection shall affect any condition attached to a road service licence granted to any undertaking providing services to which section one of this Act applies.

(3)So much of any statutory provision (including any local Act passed at any time in the present session of Parliament) passed or made with respect to any particular undertaking to which section six of this Act for the time being applies as prescribes a procedure for the revision of any charges to which that section relates, or as confers upon the undertakers any power of revising any such charges with the approval or sanction of the Minister, or within defined limits, shall cease to have effect:

Provided that any such provision conferring upon the undertakers a power of revising any such charge within defined limits shall not cease to have effect by virtue of this subsection unless and until that charge is first revised by the Minister under the said section six.

(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2, so much of any statutory provision (including any local Act passed at any time in the present session of Parliament) passed or made with respect to any particular railway or inland waterway undertaking as makes provision corresponding to any of the enactments specified in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act, or as otherwise prohibits undue preference, or an undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect, in favour of or against any person or particular class of persons or any particular description of traffic, shall cease to have effect.

F3(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6)Any reference (however expressed) in any statutory provision passed, made or applied as mentioned in subsection (2), (3) or (4) of this section to charges authorised by or in pursuance of the Act or other instrument containing that provision shall be construed as including a reference to charges for the time being authorised by or in pursuance of this Act.

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Textual Amendments

F4S. 14(7) repealed (26.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1149, art. 3(2), Sch. 2