PART VRating of Transport and Electricity Authorities.
Miscellaneous.
109Power to make orders varying Part V.
1
Without prejudice to any other power to make orders conferred by this Part of this Act, the Minister, the Secretary of State, or the Minister and the Secretary of State acting jointly, according as England and Wales-only, Scotland only or both England and Wales and Scotland are concerned, may by order do all or any of the following things, that is to say—
a
direct that the provisions of this Act relating to railway or canal hereditaments shall apply also to other hereditaments occupied wholly or mainly for purposes of the British Transport Commission, or shall not apply to hereditaments to which they would apply but for the provisions of the order ;
b
make such consequential amendments in the provisions of this Part of this Act, and in the provisions of Part III of this Act, as may be consequential on the giving of any such direction as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection ; and
c
make such amendments, whether consequential or not, in any of the figures set out in any of the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act, as may be specified in the order.
2
Any order under this section may be revoked or varied by a subsequent order made thereunder,
3
Before any order is made under this section, a draft thereof shall be laid before each House of Parliament, and the order shall not be made until approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.