Article 12 Modifications to the Transport Act 2000

(1)

Section 108 of the Transport Act 2000 (local transport plans)^f1 applies in relation to the Combined Authority and the Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland Combined Authority as if—

(a)

any reference to the area of a local transport authority were a reference to the area consisting of the areas for which the Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland Combined Authority and the Combined Authority are established; and

(b)

in subsection (4) for paragraph (ca) there were substituted—

“(ca)
the Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland Combined Authority and the Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority acting jointly through the joint transport committee appointed under article 8 of the Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2018,”.

(2)

The Combined Authority is not to be treated as a mayoral combined authority for the purposes of section 123A(4)(a) of the Transport Act 2000^f2.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 108 was amended by section 3 of and paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Transport (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 5); sections 7 to 9 , 77 and 131 of and paragraphs 41 and 42 of Schedule 4 to and Part 1 of Schedule 7 to the Local Transport Act 2008; and by section 119 and paragraph 96 of Schedule 6 to the 2009 Act.
f2: Section 123A was inserted by section 4 of the Bus Services Act 2017 (c. 21).