Transport Act 1962

55 The Nationalised Transport Advisory Council

(1) There shall be established in accordance with this section a Nationalised Transport Advisory Council for the purpose of advising the Minister on questions relating to the co-ordination, or any other aspect, of the nationalised transport undertakings.

(2) The Council shall consist of—

(a) a chairman, a vice chairman and not more than five other members who shall be appointed by the Minister from among persons appearing to him to have had wide experience of, and to have shown capacity in, industrial, commercial, financial or economic matters, applied science or administration ;

(b) the chairmen of the Boards and the Holding Company; and

(c) until the vesting date, the chairman of the Commission.

(3) The Minister may, if he thinks fit, appoint any other person (who shall not be a member of the Council) to assist the Council in its work.

(4) Notwithstanding subsection (2) of this section, the Minister may, instead of appointing a chairman of the Council, preside over the Council himself, and may in any case preside over it on any particular occasion.

(5) The persons appointed under subsection (2) of this section shall hold and vacate office in accordance with their terms of appointment and shall, on ceasing to hold office, be eligible for re-appointment :

Provided that any such person may at any time by notice in writing to the Minister resign his office.

(6) Any person whom the Minister proposes to appoint under subsection (2) of this section shall, when requested by the Minister so to do, furnish to him such information as the Minister may consider necessary for the purpose of satisfying the Minister that that person will have no such financial or other interest as is likely to affect prejudicially the discharge by him of his functions under this section.

(7) The Minister may pay out of money provided by Parliament to the persons appointed by him under this section such remuneration and such travelling allowances and allowances in respect of out-of-pocket expenses as the Minister may with the approval of the Treasury determine, and the Minister shall provide the Council with such officers and servants, and such accommodation, as appear to him to be requisite for the proper discharge of the Council's functions.

(8) In this section " the nationalised transport undertakings " means, before the vesting date, the undertakings of the Commission and of the bodies which are subsidiaries of the Commission, and, after that date, the undertakings of the Boards, the activities of the Holding Company and the undertakings of the bodies which are subsidiaries of any of the Boards or the Holding Company.