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House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Thursday 24th April 2008

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s):

 

Local Transport Bill [Lords] Committee 121-156

 

Public Bill Committee

 

Local Transport Bill [Lords]

 

Stephen Hammond

 

255

 

Clause  26,  page  25,  line  28,  at end insert—

 

‘(5A)    

In subsection (2), in paragraph (c) (maximum period for which scheme to remain

 

in operation), for “ten” substitute “five”.’.

 

Stephen Hammond

 

256

 

Clause  26,  page  25,  line  30,  leave out ‘ten’ and insert ‘five’.

 

Stephen Hammond

 

257

 

Clause  30,  page  27,  line  45,  at end insert—

 

‘(iii)    

any estimated liabilities arising from legal action by relevant

 

operators as a direct result of the scheme’.

 

Norman Baker

 

Mr John Leech

 

258

 

Clause  41,  page  36,  line  20,  after ‘area’, insert ‘including actions to ease

 

congestion on a highway network.’.

 

Norman Baker

 

Mr John Leech

 

259

 

Clause  51,  page  45,  line  6,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘shall’.

 
 

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Local Transport Bill [Lords] continued

 
 

Norman Baker

 

Mr John Leech

 

260

 

Clause  58,  page  51,  line  25,  leave out from ‘and’ to end of line 27 and insert ‘to the

 

local traffic authority’.

 

Norman Baker

 

Mr John Leech

 

261

 

Clause  61,  page  54,  line  26,  at end insert—

 

‘(2)    

After subsection (1)(vii) insert—

 

“(viia)    

to require operators of public passenger services (within the

 

meaning of section 9A) to display within any vehicle or premises

 

used for providing those services information appropriate to

 

enable users of those services to make representations (including

 

complaints) about them to the Executive.

 

(viib)    

as a result of any representations (including complaints) it has

 

received from users of public passenger services pursuant to

 

subsection (1)(viia), to make and publish recommendations or

 

representations in such manner and to such persons as the

 

Executive sees fit.”’.

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

262

 

Clause  80,  page  69,  line  34,  after ‘Delegation’ insert ‘transfer’.

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

263

 

Clause  80,  page  69,  line  42,  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

The Secretary of State may, to any extent, by order provide for the transfer, to an

 

ITA or an eligible local transport authority, of any function of a highway

 

authority or a local traffic authority—

 

(a)    

which is exercisable by the highway authority or the local traffic

 

authority in relation to an area which is comprised in the ITA’s integrated

 

transport area or the eligible local transport authority’s area, and

 

(b)    

which the Secretary of State considers can appropriately be transferred to

 

and exercised by the ITA or the eligible local transport authority.

 

(1B)    

An order made under subsection (1A) may provide that any reference in the

 

Highways Act 1980 or the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to a highway

 

authority or a local traffic authority shall have effect as a reference to the relevant

 

ITA or the eligible local transport authority to whom any function of a highway

 

authority or a local traffic authority is transferred by that order.’.

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

264

 

Clause  80,  page  70,  line  3,  at end add—

 

‘(5)    

“Highway authority” and “ local authority” have the same meaning as they do for

 

the purposes of the Highways Act 1980 and the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984

 

respectively.’.