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Bus services: provision by local authority
Mr Don Foster NC4 To move the following Clause:'.(1) A local transport authority, or two or more such authorities acting jointly, may use their own vehicles, or vehicles leased to them, to provide bus services in the whole or part of their area, or combined area, if they are satisfied that this is the most economic, efficient and effective way in which they will be able to implement the policies set out in their current integrated transport strategy. (2) A local authority, which is not a local transport authority, shall be regarded for the purposes of this Act as being a bus operator and may apply to run services using their own vehicles or vehicles leased to them.'.
Bus services: registrations
Mr Don Foster NC5 To move the following Clause:'The traffic commissioner, acting under section 6 of the Transport Act 1985 in his capacity as the registration authority, may refuse or vary the timing of a registration of a bus service, where it appears to him that the primary aim of the registration is to disrupt the business of a competitor.'.
Bus service variations
Mr Don Foster NC6 To move the following Clause:'An operator who seeks to vary departure times within five minutes for bus services which have been registered with the traffic commissioner must seek a new registration for such a variation.'.
Deregistration
Mr Don Foster NC8 *To move the following Clause:'The period of notice given by the traffic commissioner that he intends to deregister a registered bus service must be 56 days.'.
Bus operating centres
Mr Don Foster NC9 *To move the following Clause:'.In permitting bus operators to establish an operating centre under section 14 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981, the Traffic Commissioner must be satisfied that the centre is available, suitable, and of sufficient capacity, and must take into account the suitability of the local public road network for the establishment of such a centre.'. Taxis used on stage carriage services
Mr Don Foster NC10 *To move the following Clause:'For the purposes of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 a taxi used as a bus on a stage carriage service may have up to 12 seats.'.
Publication
Mr Don Foster NC11 *To move the following Clause:'(1) A local authority or authorities making a quality partnership scheme under section 98 must publish annually in at least one newspaper circulating in the area to which the scheme relates information about
No fare services
Mr Don Foster NC12 *To move the following Clause:'Where an operator proposes to operate a bus service for which no fares will be collected, that service shall be subject to registration in the usual way.'.
Taxi and private hire services: environmental protection
Mr Don Foster NC13 *To move the following Clause:'Each local transport authority, in preparing its local transport plan, must include a scheme requiring operators of taxis and private hire vehicles to fit them with catalysts and particulate traps and to submit such taxis and private hire vehicles to inspection and testing.'.
Publication by Traffic Commisioners of performance information
Mr Don Foster NC14 *To move the following Clause:'(1) A local bus operator must, on a quarterly basis, provide the Traffic Commissioners with data on passengers, fare levels, costs, scheduled mileage and actual mileage as part of its claim for Fuel Duty Rebate. (2) The Traffic Commissioners may publish such information in a specified format for each region.'.
Goods Vehicles
Mr Don Foster NC15 *To move the following Clause:'It shall be incumbent on the driver of a goods vehicle using a weight restricted route to provide evidence on demand to any police officer or member of the Vehicle Inspectorate or Trading Standards Office that such a driver is using the route lawfully.'.
Quiet lanes and home zones
Mr Don Foster NC16 *To move the following Clause:-'(1) A local traffic authority may designate any restricted residential road or roads within their area and for which they are the traffic authority as a home zone. A local authority may designate any rural road or roads within their area and for which they are the traffic authority as a quiet lane. Designations of home zones or quiet lanes may be made for any or all of the following purposes
(2) Before designating a quiet lane or home zone, a local traffic authority shall consult
(3) For the purposes of this Act a home zone is an area within which
(4) For the purposes of this Act a quiet lane is a rural road or roads along which
(5) Within six months of a home zone being designated the highway authority shall introduce such traffic calming works and other measures as it deems appropriate. (6) As soon as it is practicable and no later than six months after the coming into force of this Act the Secretary of State shall
(7) Guidance under this section shall include guidance on
(8) The Secretary of State may, if he deems it appropriate, issue different guidance for different authorities or different types of authority or for different areas.'.
Mr Bernard Jenkin 20 Page 82, line 29, leave out Clause 144.
Mr Don Foster 392 Clause 151, page 87, line 3, at end add'(4) The charging authority may, after consultation with neighbouring local authorities covered by the local transport plan and organisations appearing to the authority to be representative of users of roads within the local transport plan area, close public highways to motor vehicles to assess the impact on traffic movement in the area generally and, in particular, on the use of roads where charges apply, for a period of up to twelve weeks. (5) The authority may use the results of the assessment of highway closures carried out under subsection (4) to incorporate highway closures into amendments to the local transport plan.'.
Mr Don Foster
Mr Michael Moore 479 *Clause 158, page 89, line 5, after 'premises', insert 'which shall include out-of-town retail shopping complexes, entertainment facilities and warehouses'.
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