Transport (London) Act 1969

5 General duties of Executive and other bodies with respect to passenger transport services for Greater London

(1) Subject always to the requirements of section 7(3) of this Act, it shall be the general duty of the Executive to exercise and perform their functions, in accordance with principles from time to time laid down or approved by the Council, in such manner as, in conjunction with the Railways Board and the Bus Company, and with due regard to efficiency, economy and safety of operation, to provide or secure the provision of such public passenger transport services as best meet the needs for the time being of Greater London.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Executive, the Railways Board and the Bus Company, either acting directly, or acting indirectly through subsidiaries of theirs, to co-operate with one another in the exercise and performance of their respective functions for the purpose—

(a) of co-ordinating the passenger transport services provided by, or by subsidiaries of, those authorities respectively ; and

(b) of securing or facilitating the proper discharge of the Executive's duty under subsection (1) of this section,

and to afford to one another such information as to their services as may be reasonably required for those purposes; and for the purposes of such co-operation those authorities shall have power to enter into such arrangements with one another with respect to the exercise and performance of their respective functions on such terms as may appear to them to be expedient.

(3) It shall be incumbent on the Executive to take such steps as appear to them to be practicable and desirable for promoting—

(a) research on lines settled from time to time with the approval of the Council into matters affecting, or arising out of, the exercise of the functions of the Executive or any subsidiary of theirs ; and

(b) the doing of such work as is requisite to enable there to be turned to account—

(i) the results of any research into any such matter as aforesaid (whether or not promoted by the Executive); and

(ii) anything resulting from any idea affecting, or arising out of, the exercise of any of those functions.

(4) The Executive may take such steps as are referred to in subsection (3) of this section with respect to any matter either by themselves carrying out the necessary research or doing the necessary work or by arranging for that research to be carried out or that work to be done by some other person with or without assistance (including financial assistance) from the Executive; but nothing in this section shall authorise the Executive to do themselves, either directly or through a subsidiary, any work such as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of the said subsection (3) which the Executive would not have power to do apart from this section.

(5) The Council may give directions to the Executive with respect to the exercise and performance of the Executive's functions under subsections (3) and (4) of this section.

(6) Nothing in subsection (1), (2) or (3) of this section shall be construed as imposing, either directly or indirectly, any form of duty or liability enforceable by proceedings before any court to which the Executive, the Railways Board or the Bus Company, as the case may be, would not otherwise be subject.