Transport (London) Act 1969

Right to grant of road service licence or consent for certain existing services

1 Where at any time within the period of twelve months ending with the vesting date the London Board were providing any service by means of public service vehicles, being a service—

(a) the whole of which was provided under a road service licence; or

(b) for the whole or part of which a road service licence was not then, but after that date is, required,

the appropriate traffic commissioners, on an application made before the vesting date by the Executive or, where that service was provided by that part of the Board's undertaking referred to in subsection (2) of section 16 of this Act, by the designated company, shall, subject to the provision by the applicant of any information the commissioners may require for the purpose, forthwith as the case may require either grant or back a road service licence or vary the existing road service licence so as to authorise the continuation of that service for a period of three years after the vesting date by the Executive or, as the case may be, by that company in the same form as before that date ; and nothing in sections 135 to 143 of the Act of 1960 shall apply in relation to any application under this paragraph.

2 Where at any time within the period of twelve months aforesaid the part aforesaid of the London Board's undertaking was providing a London bus service, the Executive, on an application made before the vesting date by the designated company, shall forthwith grant that company a consent to the provision of that service by that company on such terms as to permit the continuation of that service for a period of three years after the vesting date in the same form as before the vesting date.