PART 5Transport

Power to pay grantF114.

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Agreements between authorities and strategic highways companiesF215.

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Road safety16.

(1)

The functions of the constituent councils specified in section 39(2) and (3) of the 1988 Act (duties of local authorities to prepare and carry out a programme of measures designed to promote road safety, and carry out studies into accidents arising out of the use of vehicles on certain roads within their areas)59 are exercisable by the Combined Authority in relation to the Area.

(2)

The functions referred to in paragraph (1) are exercisable concurrently with the constituent councils.

Annotations:
Commencement Information

I1Art. 16 in force at 8.5.2017, see art. 1(3)

Traffic regulation17.

(1)

The functions of the constituent councils as local traffic authorities specified in the following provisions of the 1984 Act are exercisable by the Combined Authority in relation to the Area—

(a)

section 1 (traffic regulation orders outside Greater London)60;

(b)

section 2(4) (what a traffic regulation order may provide)61; and

(c)

section 9 (experimental traffic schemes)62.

(2)

The functions specified in paragraph (1) are exercisable by the Combined Authority concurrently with the constituent councils.

(3)

Part 1 of, and Schedule 9 to, the 1984 Act apply in relation to the exercise by the Combined Authority of the functions specified in paragraph (1) as they apply in relation to the exercise by the constituent councils of those functions.

(4)

The 1996 Regulations apply in relation to orders made or proposed to be made by the Combined Authority in exercise of the functions specified in paragraph (1) as they apply in relation to orders made or proposed to be made by the constituent councils in exercise of those functions.

(5)

For the purposes of paragraph (4), references in the 1996 Regulations to an order making authority are to be read as including references to the Combined Authority.

(6)

In this article “local traffic authority” has the meaning given by section 121A63 of the 1984 Act.