Part II Local transport

F1Local transport authority byelaws

144CByelaws: copies and evidence

(1)

If the Secretary of State has confirmed byelaws made under section 144A, the local transport authority or authorities which made them must print copies of the byelaws, of which—

(a)

at least one must be kept at the authority’s principal office or at each of the authorities’ principal offices,

(b)

one must be sent to the Secretary of State, and

(c)

one must be supplied to any person who requests it, on payment by the person of such reasonable charge as the authority or authorities may determine.

(2)

The authority or authorities must publish on their website or websites—

(a)

a copy of the byelaws, and

(b)

a notice stating—

(i)

that the byelaws have been confirmed and when they come into force,

(ii)

where printed copies of the byelaws can be inspected, and

(iii)

how printed copies of the byelaws can be obtained.

(3)

The production of a printed copy of byelaws which is indorsed with a certificate—

(a)

stating one or more matters specified in subsection (4), and

(b)

purporting to be signed by an officer of a local transport authority by whom the byelaws purport to have been made,

is evidence of what is stated in the certificate.

(4)

Those matters are—

(a)

that the byelaws were made by the local transport authority or authorities,

(b)

that the copy is a true copy of the byelaws,

(c)

that the byelaws were confirmed by the Secretary of State on the date specified in the certificate, and

(d)

the date of the coming into force of the byelaws.