Other transport functions
11.—(1) There are delegated to the Combined Authority the functions of the constituent councils under section 2 of the Road Traffic Reduction Act 1997 (duty of principal councils to make reports).
(2) Sections 237A to 237E of the Local Government Act 1972(1) (fixed penalty notices) shall apply in relation to the Combined Authority so far as those provisions relate to the Mersey Tunnel Byelaws 2003(2).
(3) The Combined Authority has power to enter into agreements as if it were a highway authority under section 8 of the Highways Act 1980(3) and also a traffic authority under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(4) and a street authority under section 49 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.
(4) The costs incurred by the Combined Authority in discharging the functions exercisable by it by virtue of this article shall, except so far as the constituent councils agree otherwise, be defrayed by the Combined Authority.
(5) The costs so defrayed shall, for the purposes of section 74(10) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, fall to be treated as expenses attributable to the exercise of the Combined Authority’s functions relating to transport.
(6) The functions delegated by paragraph (1) are not exercisable by the constituent councils either concurrently or instead of the Combined Authority, except so far as the Combined Authority sub-delegates any such functions back to a constituent council.
(7) In the application of section 101 of the Local Government Act 1972 (arrangements for the discharge of functions) to the Combined Authority the functions delegated to the Combined Authority by paragraph (1) are to be treated as if they were functions of the Combined Authority.
Section 237A was inserted by the Local Government and Public Health Involvement Act 2007 (c. 28) section 130.
The Mersey Tunnel Byelaws were made by the Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority under section 102 of the County of Merseyside Act 1980 (1980 c. x) as amended by the Mersey Tunnels Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/297).
1984 c. 27; the definition of “traffic authority” is in section 121A which was inserted by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22) Schedule 8, paragraph 70 and amended by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29) section 271(1), (2).