Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) (No. 2) Order 1983
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1983/1714 |
| Year | 1983 |
1983 No. 1714
PUBLIC PASSENGER VEHICLES
The Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) (No. 2) Order 198310thMay 1983
12thMay 1983
1stDecember 1983
ARRANGEMENT OF ORDER
Article
Commencement and citation 1
Revocation 2
Interpretation 3
Traffic areas 4
Amendment of enactments 5
Traffic Commissioners 6
Debts and liabilities 7
Reports 8
Records 9
Transitional provisions about completed matters 10
Transitional provisions about completed matters
affecting more than one traffic area 11
Transitional provisions about uncompleted public
sittings and inquiries 12
Transitional provisions about other uncompleted
matters 13
Licensing authorities and traffic commissioners
referred to in Articles 11, 12 and 13 14
The effect of completion of uncompleted matters 15
Transitional provisions about licences 16 and 17
SCHEDULE
Traffic areas
Page 9
The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(2) and (3) and 80(2) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(a),
(a) 1981 c. 14.
and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with the Council on Tribunals in accordance with section 10(1) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971(a), hereby makes the following Order:—
Commencement and citation
1.—(1) This Order shall come into operation on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.
(2) This Order may be cited as the Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) (No. 2) Order 1983.
Revocation
2. The Traffic Areas (Provisions on Variation) Order 1933(b) and the Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) Order 1983(c) are hereby revoked.
Interpretation
3.—(1) In this Order—
"licensing authority" in relation to an operator's licence has the meaning given by section 59(1) of the 1968 Act, and in relation to a licence under Part IV of the Road Traffic Act 1972(d) has the meaning given by section 113(1) of that Act;
"operator's licence" has the meaning given by section 60(1) of the 1968 Act;
"public service vehicle", "PSV operator's licence", and "road service licence" have the meanings respectively given by section 82(1) of the 1981 Act;
"the 1968 Act" means the Transport Act 1968(e);
"the 1981 Act" means the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981.
(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to—
(a) a numbered Article is a reference to the Article bearing that number in this Order;
(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the Article in which it appears.
(3) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to traffic commissioners shall, in relation to a licence to drive a public service vehicle or an application for such a licence or any action in respect of such a licence, be construed as a reference to the authority specified in section 22(2) of the 1981 Act.
(a) 1971 c. 62.
(b) S.R. & O. 1933/1101.
(c) This Order, not having been approved by Parliament, was never registered.
(d) 1972 c. 20.
(e) 1968 c. 73.
(4) For the purposes of this Order a matter shall be treated as completed notwithstanding that it is, or may become, subject to an appeal or a requirement for reconsideration.
Traffic areas
4.—(1) On and after 1st April 1984 the number of traffic areas is reduced from the eleven areas specified in section 3(1) of the 1981 Act to the nine areas specified in the Schedule to this Order.
(2) Those nine areas have the names specified in column 1 in the Schedule to this Order and comprise the areas specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
Amendment of enactments
5.—(1) On and after 1st April 1984, section 80 of the 1981 Act is varied so that—
(a) in subsection (1), for the words "on the signed maps whose boundary is delineated thereon by a red line" there are substituted the words "in Article 4(2) of, and the Schedule to, the Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) (No. 2) Order 1983";
(b) in subsection (2), the words "and if, by virtue of subsection (3) of that section" to the end are omitted; and
(c) subsections (3) and (4) are omitted.
(2) Any reference in any Act enacted before 1st April 1984 or in any subordinate legislation made before that date to a traffic area of a name specified in an item in column 2 of the Table to Article 6(1) shall, on and after 1st April 1984, be construed as a reference to the traffic area specified in that item in column 3 of that Table.
Traffic Commissioners
6.—(1) Any appointment made before 1st April 1984 of a person as a chairman of traffic commissioners for a traffic area specified in an item in column 2 in the Table below and which appointment is extant immediately before that date shall, on and after that date, be deemed to be an appointment as chairman of the traffic commissioners for the traffic area specified in that item in column 3 of that Table.
TABLE
1 2 3
Item Traffic area before Traffic area on and
No. 1st April 1984 after 1st April 1984
1. Scottish Scottish
2. North-Western North-Western
3. Northern North-Eastern
4. West Midland West Midland
5. Eastern Eastern
6. South Wales South Wales
7. Western Western
8. Metropolitan Metropolitan
9. South-Eastern South-Eastern
10. Yorkshire North-Eastern
11. East Midland Eastern
(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) apply in respect of any deputy chairman appointed under paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of Schedule 2 to the 1981 Act in the same manner as they apply to a chairman.
(3) Any nomination made before 1st April 1984 of a person to a panel in...
To continue reading
Request your trial