Transport (London) Act 1969

14 Users' consultative body

(1) As soon as may be after the vesting date, the Council shall establish a consultative body for the purpose of considering, and, where it appears to that body to be desirable, making recommendations with respect to, any matter affecting the services and facilities provided by the Executive which, not being concerned with the charges made for any service or facility or with a proposal for such a closure as is referred to in section 25(1) of this Act of a station or line on their railways—

(a) has been the subject of representations (other than representations appearing to that body to be frivolous) made to that body by or on behalf of users of those services or facilities ; or

(b) has been referred to that body by the Council or by the Executive; or

(c) appears to that body to be a matter to which consideration ought to be given ;

and copies of the minutes, conclusions and recommendations of that body shall be sent to the Council and to the Executive.

(2) Before the Council appoint any person to be a member of the body aforesaid they shall consult with such as they consider appropriate of any bodies appearing to them to be representative of the interests of persons likely to be significantly concerned with matters within the competence of the body aforesaid.

(3) The Council may give to the Executive any directions which, after consultation with the Executive and having regard to the provisions of section 7(6) of this Act, the Council think fit with respect to the matters dealt with in any recommendation of the body aforesaid.

(4) The Council shall provide the body aforesaid with such officers and servants, and such office accommodation, as appear to the Council to be requisite for the proper discharge of that body's functions.

(5) The Council may pay to the members of the body aforesaid such allowances as the Council may determine, being allowances of such description and not exceeding such amount as might have been paid by that body if that body had been a body to which Part VI of the [1948 c. 26.] Local Government Act 1948 applies.