The Corporate Joint Committees (Transport Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2021

Modification of the Transport Act 2000

4.  For section 109B there were substituted—

“109B    Further provision about the regional plan

(1) A corporate joint committee must keep its regional transport plan under review and alter it if it considers it appropriate to do so.

(2) A corporate joint committee must in particular review the plan as soon as practicable after the publication of the Wales Transport Strategy or any revision of it.

(3) A corporate joint committee must replace its regional transport plan not later than five years after the date on which the plan was approved under section 109A.

(4) Section 109A applies to a replacement plan as altered as it applies to a plan as originally prepared.

(5) A corporate joint committee shall be taken to have complied with subsection (3) if (but only if)—

(a) it submits its replacement plan to the Welsh Ministers for their approval under section 109A before the end of the five year period mentioned in subsection (3), and

(b) the Welsh Ministers approve the plan under section 109A (whether the approval is given before or after the end of that five year period).

(6) If a corporate joint committee fails to comply with subsection (3) because it fails to submit its replacement plan to the Welsh Ministers before the end of the five year period mentioned in that subsection, the corporate joint committee must replace its regional transport plan as soon as practicable after the expiry of the five year period.

(7) If a corporate joint committee fails to comply with subsection (3) because the Welsh Ministers refuse to approve a plan submitted to them under section 109A, it must replace its regional transport plan as soon as practicable after the refusal.

(8) As soon as practicable after its plan, or its plan as altered, has been approved under section 109A, a corporate joint committee must—

(a) publish the plan or the plan as altered in such manner as it thinks fit, and

(b) send a copy of it to such persons (if any) as may be specified in guidance under section 112(1).

(9) A corporate joint committee must also—

(a) ensure that a copy of its regional transport plan is available for inspection (at all reasonable hours) at such places it thinks fit,

(b) give notice, by such means as it thinks expedient for bringing it to the attention of the public, as to the places at which a copy of it may be inspected, and

(c) supply a copy of it (or any part of it) to any person on request, either free of charge or at a charge representing no more than the cost of providing the copy.”