Part I General Provisions Relating to Road Passenger Transport

Further amendments with respect to PSV operators’ licences

F127BProvisions supplementing section 27A

(1)

This section supplements section 27A of this Act.

(2)

In this section “direction” means a direction under subsection (2) of that section.

(3)

The information that may be specified in a direction must be information which the local traffic authority have in their possession or can reasonably be expected to acquire.

(4)

The information that may be specified in a direction includes information relating to—

(a)

the management of a local traffic authority’s road network; or

(b)

the use of their road network by different kinds of traffic or the effects of that use.

(5)

A direction may be given—

(a)

to one or more local traffic authorities; or

(b)

to local traffic authorities of a description specified in the direction.

(6)

In section 27A of this Act and in this section the following expressions have the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Traffic Management Act 2004 (network management by local traffic authorities)—

  • appropriate national authority,

  • local traffic authority,

  • road network,

  • traffic,

except that “local traffic authority” does not include Transport for London, a London borough council or the Common Council of the City of London.