Road Traffic Act 1930

105 Working and other agreements. E+W+S

(1) A local authority authorised to run public service vehicles and any other local authority authorised to run such vehicles in any district adjacent to the district of the first-mentioned authority, or adjacent to any district on any road in which the first-mentioned authority are for the time being authorised to run such vehicles, may make and carry into effect agreements for the management, working, and maintenance of any service which any party to the agreement is authorised to run.

(2) A local authority authorised to run public service vehicles and any other person, not being a local authority, may make and carry into effect agreements for the management, working, and maintenance of any service which any party to the agreement is for the time being authorised to run, either in the district of the local authority, or in any district on any road in which the authority are for the time being authorised to run such vehicles.

(3) An agreement entered into under either of the last two preceding subsections may make provision with respect to all or any of the following matters, that is to say:—

(a) The working, user, management and maintenance of any vehicles, lands, depots, buildings sheds, and property provided in connection with any services to which the agreement relates by any party to the agreement and the right to provide and use the same and to demand and take the fares and charges authorised in respect of such services;

(b) The supply by any party to the agreement of vehicles and conveniences in connection therewith necessary for the purposes of such agreement and the employment of officers and servants;

(c) The through running of vehicles.

(4) A local authority authorised to run public service vehicles may make and carry into effect agreements with any other local authority athorised to run such vehicles, and with any other person, not being a local authority, for all or any of the following purposes, so far as those purposes can be effectuated without any through running of vehicles, that is to say:—

(a) The interchange, accommodation, conveyance, transmission and delivery of traffic arising on or coming from or destined for any service provided by any party to the agreement;

(b) The payment, collection and apportionment of the fares and charges and other receipts arising from any such service as aforesaid.

(5) Agreements may be made under this section notwithstanding any provision in any local Act or Order by which the making of working agreements is restricted, but in running any service of public service vehicles on any route in pursuance of an agreement made under his section the local authority or other person operating the service shall comply with the provisions of the Act or Order, if any, by which the service is authorised.

(6) In this section the expression “authorised” means authorised otherwise than by virtue of an agreement under this section.