Transport (London) Act 1969

20 Power of Council to direct preparation of proposals for transfers of functions etc.

(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the Council may direct the Executive to prepare and submit to the Council proposals for arrangements whereby—

(a) specified transport services or facilities for the time being provided by, or by a subsidiary of, the Executive will instead be provided by some other person or will be discontinued; or

(b) specified transport services or facilities which the Executive have power to provide but which are for the time being provided by some person other than the Executive or a subsidiary of theirs will instead be provided by, or by a subsidiary of, the Executive;

and, subject to any directions of the Council, any such proposals may include arrangements agreed between the Executive, any subsidiary of theirs and the other person concerned for the transfer between the Executive or that subsidiary and that other person of property, rights and liabilities; and on receiving any such proposals, the Council may direct the Executive to give effect to those proposals either without modification or with such modifications as may be specified by the Council, or not to proceed with the proposals, as the Council may think fit.

(2) The Council shall give to the Minister not less than eight weeks notice of their intention to give any direction to the Executive under subsection (1) of this section and shall furnish the Minister with all such information appearing to him to be relevant in connection with the direction as he may require; and if it appears to the Minister that the implementation of arrangements such as are required by the direction to be proposed or, as the case may be, the giving of effect to the proposals in accordance with the direction would be likely to result in the Executive and their subsidiaries ceasing to be the main providers, apart from the Railways Board, the Bus Company and their subsidiaries, of the passenger transport services required to meet the needs of Greater London, he may at any time before the expiry of that notice direct the Council to modify their proposed direction to the Executive in such manner as the Minister may specify, or not to proceed with the giving of their direction to the Executive, as the Minister may think fit.