The Transport for London (Consequential Provisions) Order 2003

Transport Act 1962

2.—(1) The Transport Act 1962(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) The following provisions—

(a) in section 52(4), the definition of “independent railway undertaking”;

(b) the provisions of Schedule 2 specified in sub-paragraph (3); and

(c) Schedule 6 (distribution of undertaking of British Transport Commission), except paragraph 5,

shall have effect as if references to the Boards included references to Transport for London or to any of its subsidiaries (within the meaning of the Greater London Authority Act 1999).

(3) The provisions of Schedule 2 referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(b) are—

(a) in Part I, those relating to—

(i) section 2 (powers of entry) of the Railway Fires Act 1905(2); and

(ii) section 13(1) (interpretation) of the Transport Charges &c (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954(3);

(b) in Part III, those relating to sections 54 (arrest), 55 (prevention of trespass), 56 (throwing of stones etc.), 57 (rights of way) and 59 (lights of pre-emption) of the British Transport Commission Act 1949(4); and

(c) in Part IV, those relating to sections 97 (lien for non-payment of tolls), 103 (penalty for avoiding fare), 104 (detention of offenders), 105 (carriage of dangerous goods) and 144 (defacement of notice boards) of the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act 1845(5).

(4) Sections 54 (advance notice of closures) and 67(2A) (byelaws) shall be omitted.

(1)

1962 c. 46. The reference to “the Boards” in section 52(4) applied to London Regional Transport by virtue of the London Regional Transport Act 1984 (c. 32), Schedule 4, paragraph 6(2)(a). In section 67 subsection (2A) was inserted by the London Regional Transport Act 1984, Schedule 4, paragraph 2.

(2)

1905 c. 11.

(3)

1954 c. 64.

(4)

1949 c. xxix.

(5)

1845 c. 20.