The West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority (Decrease in Number of Members) Order 2014

Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 1180

Transport

The West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority (Decrease in Number of Members) Order 2014

Made

6th May 2014

Laid before Parliament

12th May 2014

Coming into force

4th June 2014

The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 29(2) of the Local Government Act 1985(1).

In accordance with section 29(3) of that Act he has had regard to the number of local government electors in the areas of the constituent councils of the West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority.

He has consulted those councils in accordance with section 29(4) of Act.

Citation and commencement that

1.  This Order may be cited as the West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority (Decrease in Number of Members) Order 2014 and comes into force on 4th June 2014.

Decrease in number of members of the Authority

2.  In Part 6 of Schedule 10 to the Local Government Act 1985 (number of members of the West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority), for the number specified in the final column of the table in relation to each of the Authority’s constituent councils, in each case substitute “1”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Baroness Kramer

Minister of State

Department for Transport

6th May 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order alters the membership of the West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority. From 4th June 2014 the number of members to be appointed by the constituent councils is reduced to one per council.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business.

(1)

1985 c. 51; section 29 and Part 6 of Schedule 10 were amended by Schedule 9 to the Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994 (c. 29), and Part 6 of Schedule 10 was amended by paragraph 53 of Schedule 4 to the Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26).