The Transport for London (Consequential Provisions) Order 2007

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in SI 2005/56 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 2935

london government

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The Transport for London (Consequential Provisions) Order 2007

Made

9th October 2007

Laid before Parliament

11th October 2007

Coming into force

30th November 2007

The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 405(2) and 406(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Transport for London (Consequential Provisions) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 30^th November 2007.

Amendment of the London Local Authorities Act 1995

2.  In the definition of “special event” in section 9(8) of the London Local Authorities Act 1995(2) for “the participating council concerned” substitute “the relevant authority concerned”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Rosie Winterton

Minister of State

Department for Transport

9th October 2007

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends section 9 (parking: special temporary waiting prohibitions) of the London Local Authorities Act 1995 (“the 1995 Act”).

The Transport for London (Consequential Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/56) amended section 9 of the 1995 Act so as to transfer to Transport for London the power to make special temporary waiting prohibitions in respect of GLA roads and GLA side roads. This Order makes a further consequential amendment to section 9 by amending the definition of “special event” in section 9(8) to reflect that change.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

(1)

1999 c.29.

(2)

1995 c.x.