# The Ashton Vale to Temple Meads and Bristol City Centre Rapid Transit Order 2013, Article 43: Power to make byelaws

Extent: E+W+S

(1) The promoter may make byelaws regulating—
(a) the use and operation of, and travel on, the transport systems;
(b) the maintenance of safety and order on the transport systems, on any street along which the transport systems are to operate and on rapid transit system premises, harbour railway premises or other facilities provided in connection with the transport systems, where necessary to ensure the safe operation and use of the transport systems; and
(c) the conduct of all persons, including employees of the promoter, while on rapid transit premises or harbour railway premises, or which could affect the safe operation and use of the transport systems.
(2) Without limitation on the scope of paragraph (1), byelaws made under this article may make provision—
(a) with respect to tickets issued for travel on the transport systems (in whatever form), the payment of fares and charges and the evasion of payment of fares and charges;
(b) with respect to interference with, or obstruction of, the operation of the transport systems or other facilities provided in connection with the transport systems;
(c) with respect to access to, and the carriage, use or consumption of anything on, rapid transit premises or harbour railway premises;
(d) with respect to the prevention of nuisances on rapid transit premises or harbour railway premises;
(e) for regulating the passage of bicycles and other vehicles on ways and other places intended for the use of persons on foot within rapid transit premises or harbour railway premises;
(f) for the safe custody and re-delivery or disposal of any property accidentally left on rapid transit premises or harbour railway premises and for fixing the charges made in respect of any such property; and
(g) for prohibiting or restricting the placing or leaving of any vehicle without its driver on any part of the transport systems or on rapid transit premises or harbour railway premises.
(3) Byelaws made under this article may provide for it to be an offence for a person to contravene, or to fail to comply with, a provision of the byelaws and for such a person to be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(4) Without affecting the taking of proceedings for an offence included in byelaws by virtue of paragraph (3), if the contravention of, or failure to comply with, any byelaw made under this article is attended with danger or annoyance to the public, or hindrance to the promoter in the operation of the transport systems, the promoter may immediately take action to obviate or remove the danger, annoyance or hindrance.
(5) Byelaws made under this article do not come into operation until they have been confirmed by the Secretary of State.
(6) At least 28 days before applying for any byelaws to be confirmed under this article, the promoter must publish in such manner as may be approved by the Secretary of State a notice of its intention to apply for the byelaws to be confirmed and of the place at which and the times during which a copy of the byelaws will be open to public inspection; and any person affected by any of the byelaws may make representations on them to the Secretary of State within a period specified in the notice, being a period of not less than 28 days.
(7) For at least 24 days before an application is made under this article for byelaws to be confirmed, a copy of the byelaws must—
(a) be kept at the principal office of the promoter and must be open to public inspection without payment at all reasonable hours , and
(b) be made available on the promoter’s website (if any).
(8) The promoter must, at the request of any person, supply that person with a copy of any such byelaws on payment of such reasonable sum as the promoter may determine.
(9) The Secretary of State may confirm with or without modification, or may refuse to confirm, any of the byelaws submitted under this article for confirmation and, as regards any byelaws so confirmed, may fix a date on which the byelaws are to come into operation; and if no date is so fixed the byelaws come into operation after the expiry of 28 days after the date on which they were confirmed.
(10) The Secretary of State may charge the promoter such fees in respect of any byelaws submitted for confirmation under this article as the Secretary of State may consider appropriate for the purposes of defraying any administrative expenses incurred in connection with the confirmation of those byelaws.
(11) A copy of any byelaws when confirmed must be printed and deposited at the principal office of the promoter and must be open to public inspection without payment at all reasonable hours, and the promoter must, at the request of any person, supply that person with a copy of any such byelaws on payment of such reasonable sum as the promoter determines.
(12) The production of a printed copy of any byelaws made under this article on which is endorsed a certificate purporting to be signed by a person duly authorised by the promoter stating—
(a) that the byelaws were made by the promoter;
(b) that the copy is a true copy of the byelaws;
(c) that on a specified date the byelaws were confirmed by the Secretary of State; and
(d) the date when the byelaws came into operation,
is rebuttable evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3244/article/43 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/ashton-vale-to-temple-meads-and-bristol-city-centre-rapid-transit-order-2013/article-43
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