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authorities—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/1/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/1/a" id="section-80-1-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>a council for a county in England comprised in an area for which there is no ITA,</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/1/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/1/b" id="section-80-1-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>a council for a district in England comprised in an area for which there is no ITA,</Text></P3para></P3><Text>may undertake a review of the effectiveness and efficiency of transport within an area satisfying the requirements of subsections (2) and (3) (a  “review area”).</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/2" id="section-80-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>A review area must include—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/2/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/2/a" id="section-80-2-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>if the review is being undertaken by a county council, the whole of one or more of the districts in the county (or, if there are no districts in the county, the whole of the county);</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/2/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/2/b" id="section-80-2-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>if the review is being undertaken by a district council, the whole of the district.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/3" id="section-80-3"><Pnumber>3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>A review area may also include—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/3/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/3/a" id="section-80-3-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the whole of any county the council for which is not taking part in the review;</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/3/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/3/b" id="section-80-3-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the whole of any district the council for which is not taking part in the review.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/4" id="section-80-4"><Pnumber>4</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Where two or more authorities, having undertaken a review under subsection (1), conclude that the designation of an area as an integrated transport area, and the establishment of an ITA for that area, would improve—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/4/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/4/a" id="section-80-4-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the exercise of statutory functions relating to transport in the area, and</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/4/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2008/26/section/80/4/b" id="section-80-4-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the effectiveness and efficiency of transport within the area,</Text></P3para></P3><Text>they must prepare and publish a scheme for the establishment of an ITA for the area (in this section referred to as a  “<Term id="term-proposed-integrated-transport-area">proposed integrated transport area</Term>”).</Text></P2para></P2><P2 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