Transport (London) Act 1969

PART I General functions of Greater London Council as to Transport

1 General duty of Greater London Council with respect to transport

Without prejudice to any other duty imposed on them under any other Act, and in particular to their duty under section 84(1) of the Act of 1967, it shall be the general duty of the Greater London Council (hereafter in this Act referred to as " the Council") to develop policies, and to encourage, organise and, where appropriate, carry out measures, which will promote the provision of integrated, efficient and economic transport facilities and services for Greater London.

2 Transport plans for Greater London

(1) Without prejudice to their duties under the enactments relating to town and country planning, the Council shall from time to time prepare, and cause to be published in such manner as seems to the Council appropriate for informing persons appearing to (the Council to be concerned, plans relating to transport in Greater London with due regard to the relationship and interaction between transport facilities and services within, and such facilities and services outside, Greater London; and the Council shall send to the Minister a copy of any plan prepared by them under this section.

(2) Plans under this section shall be in such form, and relate to such aspects of transport and such periods, as the Council and the Minister may from time to time agree; and in preparing any such plan the Council shall consult with the Minister, the Railways Board and the London Transport Executive established under section 4 of this Act (hereafter in this Act referred to as " the Executive "), with any other local authority (being the council of a London borough, the Common Council or a county council) any part of whose area appears to the Council to be affected to a significant degree by the plan, and with any other bodies who appear to the Council to be able to contribute substantially to the formulation of the plan, and shall have regard—

(a) to any considerations to which the Minister may from time to time draw their attention, including, in particular, considerations of national or regional transport policy;

(b) to such of the following as are for the time being appropriate, namely—

(i) the initial development plan for Greater London within the meaning of section 25(2) of the [1963 c. 33.] London Government Act 1963 ;

(ii) any proposals for alterations or additions to that plan made under section 26(2) of that Act;

(iii) any proposals for the Greater London development plan;

(iv) the Greater London development plan and any proposals for any alteration or addition to that plan under Part III of the said Act of 1963 or Part I of the [1968 c. 72.] Town and Country Planning Act 1968 ;

(c) to any proposals for a further survey of Greater London under the said Part III or the said Part I; and

(d) to any exercise or proposed exercise by a local planning authority of their functions in connection with the development of any part of Greater London or of any area in the vicinity of Greater London.

(3) The Minister and the Railways Board shall have regard to any plan prepared, and to any proposals for such a plan on which they have been consulted, under this section for the purposes of settling in accordance with section 27(2) of the Act of 1962 the lines on which that Board are to act in framing and carrying out proposals involving substantial outlay by that Board or a subsidiary of theirs on capital account and, in the case of that Board, when framing and carrying out any such proposals which are likely to affect substantially transport in Greater London.

3 Power of Council to make grants

(1) Without prejudice to any other power of the Council to make grants for transport purposes, the Council shall have power to make grants—

(a) to the Executive for any purpose; or

(b) to the Railways Board in respect of passenger transport services or other passenger transport amenities or facilities provided or to be provided by them which appear to the Council to be required to meet the needs of Greater London;

but any expenditure incurred by the Council in making grants under this section shall not be relevant expenditure of the Council for the purposes of section 1 of the [1966 c. 42.] Local Government Act 1966.

(2) In section 83(4) of the [1968 c. 3.] Capital Allowances Act 1968 and, in relation to chargeable periods ending on or before 5th April 1968, in section 35(3) of the [1966 c. 18.] Finance Act 1966 (which specify certain grants the making of which in respect of any expenditure disentitles the grantee to investment allowances or initial allowances in respect of that expenditure) at the end of the paragraph (c) added by section 161(3) of the Act of 1968 there shall in each case be inserted the words “or

(d) a grant made under section 3 of the Transport (London) Act 1969”.