Transport (London) Act 1969

11 Additional provisions as to control of Executive by Council

(1) In addition to any power of the Council under any other provision of this Act to give directions to the Executive as respects any matter, the Council may give to the Executive general directions as to the exercise and performance by the Executive of their functions (including the exercise of rights conferred by the holding of interests in companies) in relation to matters appearing to the Council to affect the policies and measures which it is the duty of the Council under section 1 of this Act to develop, organise or carry out.

(2) Without prejudice to any requirement as to the approval or consent of the Council in any other provision contained in or applied by this Act, the Executive shall submit to the Council and obtain the Council's approval of—

(a) such annual or other estimates of income or expenditure of the Executive and any subsidiaries of theirs as the Council may require to be so submitted;

(b) any major change proposed to be made in any of those estimates after their approval by the Council;

(c) any proposal for expenditure by the Executive or any subsidiary of theirs which involves a substantial outlay on capital account;

(d) the general level and structure of the fares to be charged for the time being for the carriage of passengers by the Executive or any subsidiary of theirs on railway services or London bus services ;

(e) any proposal by the Executive to form, promote or assist, or to join with any other person in forming, promoting or assisting, a company for carrying on any activities which the Executive have power to carry on.

(3) Unless the Council are of opinion that in all the circumstances it is unnecessary so to do, they shall cause particulars of the general level and structure of the fares referred to in subsection (2)(d) of this section as for the time being approved by the Council to be published in such manner as the Council may determine, and the Executive shall comply with any directions of the Council as to that publication; and the Council may direct the Executive to submit proposals for an alteration in the Executive's fare arrangements to achieve any object of general policy specified by the Council in the direction.

(4) The Executive shall provide the Council at such times or intervals and in such form and manner as the Council may require with information with respect to the operations and the expenditure on capital and revenue account respectively which are planned or under consideration by the Executive, and shall furnish the Council with such returns, accounts and other information with respect to the property and activities of the Executive or any subsidiary of theirs as the Council may from time to time require.

(5) In connection with the discharge of their functions under subsections (2)(d) and (3) of this section with respect to fares for the carriage of passengers by the Executive's railways, the Council—

(a) shall in each year consult with the council of any county within which any of those railways are situated as to the general level and structure of such fares on journeys within, to or from that county ; and

(b) before approving any proposal for a change of substance in that general level and structure submitted to them for that purpose by the Executive shall inform the council of that county of that proposal and consider any offer by that council to make a financial contribution to the Executive in respect of the provision of services for the carriage of passengers by the Executive's railways within, to or from that county ;

and the Council shall so exercise their powers under subsection (4) of this section as to enable them to inform the council of that county in advance of any proposal by the Executive for a change of substance in the level of the provision made for such journeys.

(6) The Council may from time to time cause a review to be made of the organisation of the Executive's undertaking and may give to the Executive such directions as appear to the Council from any such review to be requisite to secure that the Executive's undertaking is organised in the most efficient manner; and the Executive shall not make, or permit to be made, any substantial change in the manner in which their undertaking is organised except in pursuance of a direction given by the Council under this subsection or with the approval of the Council.