The Greater London Authority Act 1999 (Hackney Carriages and Private Hire Vehicles) (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2000

Consequential modification of the 1976 Act

7.—(1) The 1976 Act shall be amended as follows.

(2) In section 74—

(a) for “a day fixed by resolution under section 45 of this Act” there shall be substituted “the relevant day”; and

(b) at the end there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

• “In this section “the relevant day” means—

  (a)

  in relation to a district the whole or part of which ceased to be within the metropolitan police district by virtue of the coming into force of section 323 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (alteration of the metropolitan police district), 1st April 2000;

  (b)

  in any other case, a day fixed by resolution under section 45 of this Act.”

(3) In section 80(1) of the 1976 Act for the definition of “controlled district” there shall be substituted—

• ““controlled district” means any area for which this Part of this Act is in force by virtue of—

  (a)

  a resolution passed by a district council under section 45 of this Act; or

  (b)

  section 255(4) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999;”.