Transport (London) Act 1969

29 Amendments as to metropolitan roads

(1) Subsections (1) to (3) of section 17 of the [1963 c. 33.] London Government Act 1963 (which specify the highways which are to be metropolitan roads, that is to say, the highways for which the Council are the highway authority) shall cease to have effect, and references in any enactment to metropolitan roads shall be construed as references to—

(a) any highway or proposed highway in Greater London which is for the time being classified under section 27(2) of the [1966 c. 42.] Local Government Act 1966 as a principal road for the purposes of advances under section 235 of the [1959 c. 25.] Highways Act 1959 ; and

(b) any other highway or proposed highway in Greater London which is for the time being designated as a metropolitan road by an order under section 7 of the said Act of 1959 directing that the highway shall cease to be a trunk road.

(2) A certificate by or on behalf of the Minister that any highway or proposed highway in Greater London is, or is not, for the time being classified as aforesaid shall be evidence of the fact stated and any such certificate may describe the highway or proposed highway in question by reference to a map.

(3) The Council shall prepare and maintain a list of, and a map showing, the highways and proposed highways which are for the time being metropolitan roads and shall deposit a copy of that list and of that map with each of the councils of the London boroughs and the Common Council, and the Council and each of those other authorities shall make that list and map, or as the case may be the copies thereof so deposited with them, available for inspection by the public at all reasonable hours.

(4) In section 18 of the [1963 c. 33.] London Government Act 1963 (which relates to the delegation of functions of the Council with respect to a metropolitan road to the council of a London borough or the Common Council), after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

“(1A) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that the functions of the Greater London Council which may be delegated by virtue of subsection (1) of this section include, and shall be deemed always to have included, the functions of that Council under the provisions of section 12 of the [1967 c. 76.] Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 (being provisions relating to the temporary prohibition or restriction of traffic on roads), or, as respects any period before the coming into operation of the said section 12, under the corresponding provisions contained in section 36 of the [1960 c. 16.] Road Traffic Act 1960, with respect to any metropolitan road in the case of which that Council have so delegated their functions with respect to the maintenance of that road.”

(5) In this section, any expression (other than " metropolitan road ") which is also used in the [1959 c. 25.] Highways Act 1959 has the same meaning as in that Act.

(6) The provisions of this section other than subsection (4) thereof shall be deemed for the purposes of section 84 of the London Government Act 1963 (which relates to the making of supplementary and transitional provision by order) to be included in that Act.