House of Lords Amendments - Greater London Authority Bill

Greater London Authority Bill - Amendments to be debated in the House of Lords - continued	House of Lords
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	Clause 145
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Page 80, line 34, leave out subsections (3) to (6) and insert-- ("(2A) The report made under this section in respect of any financial year shall include the following information-- (a) financial statements prepared on the basis of generally accepted principles of accounting; (b) the report of external auditors on those financial statements; (c) detailed statistics relating to the efficiency and reliability of the discharge of its functions by Transport for London including (but not limited to)-- (i) the number of days during the financial year in which any public passenger transport service was disrupted by any industrial dispute (whether official or otherwise); (ii) the number of cancellations of proposed journeys during the financial year by any public passenger transport service; (iii) the number of routes formerly operated by public passenger transport services closed during the financial year; and (iv) a table disclosing the remuneration of all senior staff employed by or officers of Transport for London compiled to the same standards as would apply to a company whose shares where listed on the London Stock Exchange. (2B) The report required by this section shall be available to the public at no charge and also published electronically in a form capable of access by members of the general public. (2C) A summary of the matters referred to in subsection (2A) above shall also be published in at least two newspapers circulating in the entire area of Greater London.")
	After Clause 145
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Insert the following new Clause--
	("( ) The Assembly shall have the duty to appoint and fix the remuneration of the external auditors of Transport for London.")		External auditors of Transport for London.
	Clause 146
	BY THE BARONESS HAMWEE THE LORD TOPE
	Page 81, line 18, leave out ("five") and insert ("ten")
	Page 81, line 21, leave out ("different") and insert ("longer")
	BY THE BARONESS HAMWEE THE BARONESS THOMAS OF WALLISWOOD
	Page 81, line 21, at and insert-- ("( ) No interest in operational land may be disposed of by Transport for London until other transport providers and local authorities have had at least two months notice of an intention to sell. ( ) A maximum additional period of two months shall be available for organisations who have received such prior notice to make proposals for the purchase of the land. ( ) Transport for London shall prepare and keep available for inspection a list of its freehold and other interests in operational and non-operational land and buildings.")
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Leave out Clause 146
	Clause 151
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Page 84, line 2, at end insert-- ("( ) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, Transport for London may not acquire any interest in a company whose shares are quoted on a recognised stock exchange (within the meaning of section 841 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988) or traded on any public market (any such company being in this subsection a "quoted company"). ( ) Where Transport for London acquires an interest in a company which subsequently becomes a quoted company then it shall be permitted such period of time as is reasonable in all the circumstances (being a period not exceeding 2 years beginning on the day when such company first becomes a quoted company) to dispose of such holding for the best price as may be obtainable, and during such period such company shall not be regarded for the purposes of this Part as a company in which Transport for London holds an interest.")
	After Clause 151
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Insert the following new Clause--
	(" .--(1) With effect from the appointed day, Transport for London shall introduce, or procure or facilitate the introduction of, a means by which passengers shall be able to make journeys in Greater London using more than one public passenger transport service having purchased only a single ticket, such ticket be a voucher or an electronic card or such other system as appears to Transport for London to be the most reliable, economic and efficient means to effect such journeys. (2) The Mayor may issue regulations under this subsection as to the day on which subsection (1) above shall come into effect, provided that the appointed day within that subsection shall be no later than the fifth anniversary of this Act coming into force.")		One ticket system for public transport.
	Clause 152
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Page 84, line 15, at end insert-- ("(3) In exercising his powers under subsection (1) above to determine the matters specified in subsection (2)(a) above, the Mayor shall be under a duty to ensure that the general level of fares to be charged for public passenger transport services by a Tube operator at any time after this Act comes into force is no more than the general level twelve months previous to that time increased by a percentage equal to the control rate. (4) In subsection (3) above the control rate shall be at any time the number of percentage points by which the most recently available figure for the retail prices index has increased on the retail prices index for the month twelve months previous to that figure, less the factor X. (5) Notwithstanding anything in this Act the Mayor shall have the duty to ensure, as part of his general duty under section 126 above, that Tube operators charge only fair fares. (6) In this section-- "the retail prices index" is the general index of retail prices (for all items) published by the Office for National Statistics, and if that index is not published for a month which is relevant for the provisions of this section then this section shall be construed as referring to any substitute index or index figures published by that Office; "the factor X" shall, prior to 1 April 2002, be equivalent to two percentage points, and on or after 1 April 2002 shall be equivalent to four percentage points; and "a Tube operator" is London Underground Limited or any successor body or bodies, whatever their ownership, which subsequently come to operate all or part of the undertaking operated by that body at the date of Royal Assent to this Act, including any extensions to that undertaking subsequent to that date.")
	Clause 165
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Page 89, line 44, at end insert ("provided that no condition shall be operated if it contains or requires features which are neither essential nor reasonably incidental to the purpose of providing a safe, economic and efficient bus service for passengers")
	Page 90, line 31, at end insert ("or that the condition in question contains or requires features which are neither essential nor reasonably incidental to the purpose of providing a safe, economic and efficient bus service for passengers")
	Clause 166
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Page 90, line 34, at end insert ("provided that the contravention in question does not relate to matters which are neither essential nor reasonably incidental to the purpose of providing a safe, economic and efficient bus service for passengers")
	Clause 185
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Page 102, line 32, at end insert-- ("(8) Transport for London may only enter into a PPP agreement with any party after a process of competitive tendering has taken place, such tenders in an abbreviated form to be available for inspection by members of the public following the conclusion of the tendering process.")
	Clause 204
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Page 114, line 2, after ("to") insert ("give priority to the objective in subsection (3) above (efficiency and economy) and in making his decision the PPP arbiter shall")
	Clause 211
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Page 117, line 6, leave out ("any local authority, or any two or more local authorities acting jointly, may") and insert ("each London authority (other than the Common Council) shall, either on its own account or jointly with any other local authority, and any local authority may, within six months of the establishment of Transport for London")
	Schedule 13
	BY THE BARONESS HAMWEE THE BARONESS THOMAS OF WALLISWOOD
	Page 261, line 11, at end insert--
	("Penalty fares appeals service
	( ) The Secretary of State may by order establish procedures for the creation of a penalty fares appeal service.")
	Clause 218
	BY THE BARONESS HAMWEE THE BARONESS THOMAS OF WALLISWOOD
	Page 122, line 3, after ("use") insert ("public")
	Clause 219
	BY THE BARONESS HAMWEE THE BARONESS THOMAS OF WALLISWOOD
	Page 122, line 22, after ("to") insert ("public")
	Page 122, line 43, leave out from ("highway") to end of line 44 and insert ("as users of public transport.")
	Clause 227
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Page 125, line 34, at end insert-- ("(4) No order may be made under this section in respect of any road unless a draft of such proposed order has been circulated to all local authorities within Greater London for a consultation period of at least nine months' duration, and the responses of such authorities to such draft order have been received and considered, and no order may be made designating a road as a GLA road with effect from a date prior to the end of such period of consultation and consideration. (5) No order may be made under this section in respect of a road within the City if before the end of the consultation period referred to in subsection (4) above the Common Council have objected that such proposed order would adversely affect either-- (a) the integrity of any traffic management scheme within the City of London operated by or on behalf of the Common Council on the day before the Greater London Authority Act 1999 received Royal Assent, or (b) the ability of the Common Council to ensure, or to assist and facilitate those responsible for ensuring, the security of the City of London and the people and businesses resident within it."")
	Page 125, line 34, at end insert-- ("( ) The Secretary of State shall not make any order under this section in respect of any highway or proposed highway for which a London borough council or the Common Council is the highway authority, unless he has given 2 months' notice of the proposed order to the highway authority and considered any representations made."")
	Page 125, line 34, at end insert-- ("( ) An order under this section may be made solely in respect of a road which is considered in itself and on its own merits to be of strategic importance in determining an integrated transport policy for Greater London. ( ) In making an order under this section, the boundary of any road to be designated as a GLA road, shall lie at the edge of the carriageway and shall not extend to any side roads connecting with the road in question and neither shall this section confer any authority on Transport for London over the facia of or any fixtures to any building or structure in the vicinity of any GLA road."")
	Clause 228
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Page 126, line 41, at end insert-- ("( ) An order under this section may be made solely in respect of a road which is considered in itself and on its own merits to be of strategic importance in determining an integrated transport policy for Greater London, or (as the case may be) has ceased to be of such strategic importance. ( ) In making an order under this section, the boundary of any road to be designated as a GLA road, or (as the case may be) to cease to be a GLA road, shall lie at the edge of the carriageway and shall not extend to any side roads connecting with the road in question and neither shall this section confer to any authority on Transport for London over the facia of or any fixtures to any building or structure in the vicinity of any GLA road."")
	Page 126, line 42, at end insert-- ("(7) No order may be made under this section in respect of any road unless a draft of such proposed order has been circulated to all local authorities within Greater London for a consultation period of at least six months' duration, and the responses of such authorities to such draft order have been received and considered, and no order may be made designating a road as a GLA road, or (as the case may be) cease to be a GLA road, with effect from a date prior to the end of such period of consultation and consideration. (8) No order may be made under this section in respect of a road within the City of London if before the end of the consultation period referred to in subsection (6) above the Common Council have objected that such proposed order would adversely affect either-- (a) the integrity of any traffic management scheme within the City of London operated by or on behalf of the Common Council on the day before the Greater London Authority Act 1999 received Royal Assent, or (b) the ability of the Common Council to ensure, or to assist and facilitate those responsible for ensuring, the security of the City of London and the people and businesses resident within it."")
	Clause 231
	BY THE LORD BRABAZON OF TARA THE BARONESS MILLER OF HENDON THE LORD DIXON-SMITH
	Page 128, line 10, at beginning insert ("Subject to subsection (11A) below")
	Page 128, line 11, leave out ("affect, or be likely to affect,") and insert ("substantially affect traffic flows on or the operation of, or be likely to have such affect")
	Page 129, leave out lines 8 to 18
	Page 129, line 34, at end insert-- ("(11A) This section shall not apply to the exercise of any power if any effect on a GLA road or road in another London borough would not be a relevant consideration, in the absence of this section.")



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