Transport (London) Act 1969

7 (1) Paragraph 5 of Schedule 16 to the Act of 1968 (which relates to transport police) shall apply to the Executive and, for the purposes only of any premises transferred under section 16(2) of this Act, to the Bus Company as it applies to the National Freight Corporation and the Scottish Transport Group.

(2) For the purpose only of applying section 54 of the [1949 c. xxix.] British Transport Commission Act 1949 (which relates to powers of search and arrest) to premises transferred as aforesaid, the Bus Company shall be deemed to be one of the Boards ; and in section 23 of the [1964 c. xxvi.] London Transport Act 1964 (under which the said section 54 in its application to the London Board continues in force in relation to the Executive), and in any enactment passed after this Act which provides for the said section 54 to continue in force for a further period in its application to the Executive, any reference to, or falling to be construed as a reference to, the Executive shall be construed as a reference to the Executive, any wholly-owned subsidiary of the Executive and, for the purpose aforesaid but for that purpose only, the Bus Company and any wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bus Company.

(3) Subject to any agreement made by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph and to any adaptations made under sub-paragraph (4) of the said paragraph 5—

(a) the functions of the London Board under the scheme set out in the Schedule to the [S.I. 1964/1456.] British Transport Police Force Scheme 1963 (Approval) Order 1964 made under section 69 of the Act of 1962 shall be transferred both to the Executive and, for the purposes only of any premises transferred under section 16(2) of this Act, to the Bus Company ; and

(b) section 70 of the Act of 1962 shall have effect as if the expression " the Boards " included the Executive and, for the purposes aforesaid, the Bus Company and as if premises belonging to, leased to or worked by a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Executive or the Bus Company were premises belonging to, leased to or worked by the Executive or, as the case may be, the Bus Company.