Transport Act 1981

Provisions of Transport Act 1962 and Transport Act 1968 continuing to apply to Associated British Ports U.K.

2 (1) Except as provided by the following provisions of this paragraph, the provisions of the M1 Transport Act 1962 and the M2 Transport Act 1968 relating to the Boards established by the said Act of 1962 no longer apply to Associated British Ports. U.K.

(2) The following provisions of the Transport Act 1962 continue to apply to Associated British Ports—

(a) section 1(1) (establishment of the Boards);

(b) section 13(1) (powers of manufacture and production) and section 14(1)(b) (power to enter into working agreements), so far as those provisions confer power on authorities other than Associated British Ports;

(c) section 24(4) (exclusion of certain enactments relating to accounts, statistics and returns);

(d) Part II, section 67(15) and 81 and paragraph 24 of Schedule 7 (provisions relating to the division of the functions of the British Transport Commission and consequential matters);

(e) section 43(4) and (5) (exclusion of certain enactments relating to railway undertakers);

(f) sections 52(4) and 83(7) (which exclude the Boards from the definition of independent railway undertakings);

(g) section 67(16) (power to make bylaws in relation to railways within a harbour);

(h) sections 69 to 71 (transport police);

(i) sections 74 and 75 and Part IV of Schedule 7 (pensions).

(3) The following provisions of the Transport Act 1968 continue to apply to Associated British Ports—

(a) section 51(5) and (6) (joint subsidiaries), so far as those provisions relate to companies which are not subsidiaries of Associated British Ports, except that the Secretary of State’s power to give directions under subsection (6) is not exercisable with respect to Associated British Ports;

(b) section 125 (powers of inspectors of railways);

(c) section 141(2) (application of Town and Country Planning Acts), so far as that provision relates to companies which are not wholly-owned subsidiaries of Associated British Ports;

(d) section 144 (transfer and disposal of historical records and relics);

(e) paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 16 (references to the Boards in certain enactments to include wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Boards).

Marginal Citations

M1 1962 c. 46.

M2 1968 c. 73.