Paragraph 2 Modification of the Transport Act 2000

for subsection (1) there were substituted—

“(1)

A corporate joint committee must develop policies, to be implemented under subsection (1A), for the promotion and encouragement of safe, integrated, efficient and economic transport to, from and within its area.”;

after subsection (1) there were inserted—

“(1A)

Each local transport authority in Wales whose area falls within the area of a corporate joint committee must carry out their functions so as to implement the policies developed by the corporate joint committee under subsection (1).”;

for subsection (2A) there were substituted—

“(2A)

A corporate joint committee must also develop policies for the implementation by the local transport authorities in its area of the Wales Transport Strategy.”;

after subsection (2A) there were inserted—

“(2B)

Each local transport authority in Wales whose area falls within the area of a corporate joint committee must carry out their functions so as to implement the policies developed under subsection (2A).”;

for subsection (3A) there were substituted—

“(3A)

A corporate joint committee must prepare a document to be known as the regional transport plan containing its policies under subsections (1) and (2A).”;

for subsection (5) there were substituted—

“(5)

In this Part “local transport policies”, in relation to a local transport authority, means policies developed under subsection (1) in so far as they relate to the authority’s area.”;

after subsection (5) there were inserted—

“(6)

In this Part—

(a)

“corporate joint committee” means a corporate joint committee established by regulations made under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021, and

(b)

a reference to an area of a corporate joint committee is a reference to the area comprising—

(i)

the areas of the local transport authorities that made a joint committee application under section 72(1) of that Act for regulations to be made under that section establishing the corporate joint committee, or

(ii)

the relevant areas (within the meaning given by section 74(1) of that Act) specified in the regulations establishing the corporate joint committee.”;

the heading of the section were “Local and Regional Transport Plans”.