The Regional Transport Planning (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2008

Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 1286 (W.135)

TRANSPORT, WALES

The Regional Transport Planning (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2008

Made

13 May 2008

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

14 May 2008

Coming into force

12 June 2008

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by section 109C of the Transport Act 2000(1) and now vested in them(2) hereby make the following Order:

Title, commencement and application

1.  The title of this Order is the Regional Transport Planning (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2008. It comes into force on 12 June 2008 and applies in relation to Wales.

Amendment to the Regional Transport Planning (Wales) Order 2006

2.—(1) The Regional Transport Planning (Wales) Order 2006(3) is amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) At article 5, for “30 June 2008”, there is substituted “30 June 2009”.

Ieuan Wyn Jones

Minister for the Economy and Transport, one of the Welsh Ministers

13 May 2008

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Regional Transport Planning (Wales) Order 2006 (“the 2006 Order”).

Specifically, this Order amends article 5 of the 2006 Order, amending the date upon which the Welsh Ministers require all qualifying local transport plans to be replaced, from 30 June 2008 to 30 June 2009.

The amendment is necessary due to delays in the publication of the final Wales Transport Strategy. The local transport plans are required to be consistent with and implement the Wales Transport Strategy, and therefore cannot be finalised until the Wales Transport Strategy is published.

(1)

2000 c. 38.

(2)

The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (2006 c. 32)

(3)

S.I. 2006/2993 (W.280).