Article 7
1. Section 9 of the Transport Act 1968(1) is amended as follows.
2. In subsection (1)(a)—
(a)in subparagraph (i) after “metropolitan counties” there is inserted “except Greater Manchester”;
(b)the word “and” after subparagraph (i) is omitted; and
(c)after subparagraph (i) there is inserted—
“(ia)the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester shall be the area of a combined authority; and”
3. In subsection (1)(b)—
(a)the word “and” after subparagraph (i) is omitted; and
(b)after subparagraph (i) there is inserted—
“(ia)in relation to the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority; and”.
4. In subsections (2) and (3) after “integrated transport area” there is in each case inserted “, the area of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority”.
5. In subsection (5) after “integrated transport area” there is inserted “or the area of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority”.
6. After subsection (5) there is inserted—
“(5A) In this section “the Greater Manchester Combined Authority” means the body of that name constituted by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Order 2011.”
1968 c. 73; section 9 was amended by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65) Schedule 18, paragraph 1; by the Transport Act 1985 (c. 67) sections 57(1), 58(2), Schedule 3, paragraph 3, Schedule 8; by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39) Schedule 13, paragraph 80(2); and in relation to England and Wales only by the Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26) section 98(4), Schedule 4, paragraph 2 and Schedule 7, Part 4.