The Transport for London (Specified Activities) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 1548

LONDON GOVERNMENT

The Transport for London (Specified Activities) Order 2000

Made

8th June 2000

Laid before Parliament

12th June 2000

Coming into force

3rd July 2000

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 157(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Transport for London (Specified Activities) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 3rd July 2000.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the 1999 Act” means the Greater London Authority Act 1999; and

“specified activity” means an activity which—

(a)

may be carried on in the discharge of a function conferred on Transport for London by a provision of the 1999 Act specified in column (2) in relation to an item in the Schedule to this Order, of which a general description is given in column (3); and

(b)

where a limitation is specified in column (4) of that Schedule in relation to such an item, is carried on as so specified.

(2) For the purposes of this Order an activity shall be taken to be carried on in the discharge of a function if it is done in relation to that function by virtue of paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 10 (incidental powers of Transport for London) or paragraph 32 of Schedule 11 to the 1999 Act (power of Transport for London to do anything necessary or expedient for the discharge of a function).

(3) In the Schedule to this Order, “fee” does not include any charge which is made by Transport for London on terms which provide for the reimbursement of the whole or part of its costs only.

Prohibition against carrying on specified activities through companies

3.  Transport for London shall not carry on any specified activity except through a company limited by shares and registered under the Companies Act 1985(2) which is—

(a) a subsidiary of Transport for London; and

(b) a company which Transport for London formed, or joined with others in forming, by virtue of section 156(1) of the 1999 Act and which does not fall within paragraph (a) of this article.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Keith Hill

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

8th June 2000

We consent,

Greg Pope

Bob Ainsworth

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

8th June 2000

Article 2

SCHEDULE SPECIFIED ACTIVITIES

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Item	Provision of the 1999 Act conferring function	General description of activity	Limitation
1.	Section 162	Making information available	for a fee
2.	Section 173(1)	Providing or securing the provision of public passenger transport services to, from and within Greater London
3.	Section 181(5)	Providing or securing the provision of the London bus network
4.	Section 256(1)	Providing or securing the provision of amenities and facilities benefiting persons using any waterway
5.	Schedule 11, paragraph 1	The carrying of passengers, luggage and other goods by any form of land or water transport
6.	Schedule 11, paragraph 2(1)	Making arrangements for the provision of air transport services
7.	Schedule 11, paragraph 3(1)	The storage of goods before or after carriage	for a fee
8.	Schedule 11, paragraph 3(2)	The provision of surplus storage facilities for goods held in connection with any function of Transport for London concerned with public transport	for a fee
9.	Schedule 11, paragraph 4	The making available of amenities or facilities, or of works constructed, in pursuance of an agreement under section 156(6) of the 1999 Act	for a fee
10.	Schedule 11, paragraph 5	The provision of amenities and facilities for the users of any service provided in pursuance of public passenger transport functions	for a fee
11.	Schedule 11, paragraph 6	The management or operation of any amenity or facility provided as mentioned in paragraphs 8 or 9 above	for a fee
12.	Schedule 11, paragraph 8(1)	The manufacture and repair of spare parts and components or other supplementary machinery or equipment
13.	Schedule 11, paragraph 8(2)	The repair of vehicles or other equipment and the supply of necessary parts and components for vehicles or equipment
14.	Schedule 11, paragraph 9	The provision of professional or technical advice or assistance	for a fee
15.	Schedule 11, paragraph 10	The entering into of reciprocal arrangements for the provision of ancillary services
16.	Schedule 11, paragraph 11	The letting of vehicles on hire
17.	Schedule 11, paragraph 12(2)	The supply of surplus spare parts and components
18.	Schedule 11, paragraph 13(b)	The exploitation of surplus resources
19.	Schedule 11, paragraph 14	The provision and maintenance of intermodal freight facilities
20.	Schedule 11, paragraph 15(1)	The development of land	otherwise than for the purposes of Transport for London’s functions
21.	Schedule 11, paragraph 15(3)	The acquisition of land for the purpose of developing it for use	otherwise than for the purposes of Transport for London’s functions
22.	Schedule 11, paragraph 16	The granting of an interest in land which is used for the purposes of discharging any of Transport for London’s functions	other than any such grant to a subsidiary
23.	Schedule 11, paragraph 17	The acquisition of additional interests in land in order better to exploit an interest already held
24.	Schedule 11, paragraph 21(b)	The carrying on of activities which Transport for London would not otherwise have power to carry on, in the event of those activities ceasing to be carried on under an agreement under section 156(3) of the 1999 Act or a transport subsidiary’s agreement
25.	Schedule 11, paragraph 22(1)(b)	The exploitation of the results of any research or of anything resulting from any idea affecting, or arising out of, the exercise of any of the functions of Transport for London or its subsidiaries	for a fee
26.	Schedule 11, paragraph 28(1)	The provision and maintenance of a museum or the doing of anything expedient for the provision and maintenance of a museum
27.	Schedule 11, paragraph 28(2)	Charging for admission to a museum

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides that Transport for London is not to carry on any of the activities specified in the Schedule, except through a subsidiary company or a company which Transport for London has formed or joined with others in forming under section 156(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

(1)

1999 c. 29.

(2)

1985 c. 6.