Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 15th July 2003 certain provisions of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 relating to transport. The provisions are section 217 and Schedule 12 (to the extent not already in force), sections 220 to 224 and Schedules 14 and 15, all of which relate to public-private partnership agreements, section 245 and Schedule 17 to the extent not already in force (ie for the purpose of repealing the London Regional Transport (Penalty Fares) Act 1992), section 301 (transfer of functions and transfer and disposal of historic records and relics), section 303 (interpretation of Part IV, chapter XVI) to the extent not already in force and section 423 so far as it relates to the previously uncommenced repeals of various enactments relating to transport in Part II of Schedule 34, with the exception of Part II of the Transport Act 1985 (regulation of buses) which remains in force subject to the modifications in the Regulation of Bus Services in Greater London (Transitional Provisions) Order 2000, S.I. 2000/1462.