Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(2) and (3) and 80(2) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981—

(a)

abolishes the Metropolitan Traffic Area;

(b)

alters the limits of the North-Western Traffic Area, the North-Eastern Traffic Area, the Eastern Traffic Area, the Western Traffic Area, and the area previously known as the South-Eastern Traffic Area;

(c)

changes the name of the South-Eastern Traffic Area so that it will be known as the South-Eastern and Metropolitan Traffic Area;

(d)

contains transitional and consequential provisions; and

(e)

revokes the Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) (No. 2) Order 1983.

The greater part of the area which was formerly comprised in the Metropolitan Traffic Area becomes part of the South-Eastern and Metropolitan Traffic Area. The remainder becomes part of the Eastern Traffic Area.