The Transport Act 1968 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1968

• Citation: S.I. 1968/1822
• Sections: 9

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the Transport Act 1968 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1968.

Section 2

The provisions of the Transport Act 1968 (hereinafter referred to as “ the Act ” ) specified in Schedule 1 to this Order shall come into force on the 18th November 1968, and the provisions of the Act specified in Schedule 2 to this Order shall come into force on the 1st January 1969 .

A Provisions brought into force by the Minister of Transport

In Part I of the Act

Sections 1, 2, 3(1)(b), (c) and (d), 4(2), (4) and (5), and 5 (except subsection (3)(b)).

In Part III of the Act

Sections 25 and 30 to 33.

In Part IV of the Act

Sections 39, 40, 41(8), 45 and 57.

In Part VII of the Act

Sections 104 to 111, 112(1) to (6), and 113 to 115.

In Part VIII of the Act

Sections 120 and 123 to 125.

In Part IX of the Act

Sections 132 and 133.

In Part X of the Act

Sections 138 to 140, 142, 143, 145 to 149, 153, 156(2) (so far as it relates to those paragraphs in Schedule 16 to the Act specified below), 157, 158, 162, 163, 164, 165 (so far as it relates to those provisions of Schedule 18 to the Act specified below) and 166.

In the Schedules to the Act

Schedule 3

Schedule 8.

Schedules 12 and 13.

Schedule 15.

In Schedule 16—paragraphs 1, 2 and 7.

Schedule 17.

In Schedule 18—

(a) In Part I of that Schedule—the following REPEALS IN THE TRANSPORT ACT 1962 (10 & 11 ELIZ. 2. C. 46)—

Section 6.

In section 10, subsection (2) and, in subsection (4), the words “and (2)” .

In section 11(4) the words from “but the Minister” to “by the Board” .

In section 13, subsection (2), subsection (4) (except as respects proposals approved thereunder before the appointed day for the purposes of section 48 of this Act), and subsections (5) to (8).

Sections 22(2), (3) and (6), and 25(3) .

Sections 55, 61(1) and (3), 64 and 72(4).

In section 85(1), the words from “After the entry relating to the National” to the words “the Nationalised Transport Advisory Council” .

In section 85(2), the words “or the Hotel Company” and the words from “or of” onwards.

In section 85(3), the words from “or of” onwards.

Section 87.

(b)In Part III of that Schedule—the following

MISCELLANEOUS REPEALS

In Part II of Schedule 1, and in the Part substituted therefor by Schedule 3, the entry “The Nationalised Transport Advisory Council” .

In Part III of Schedule 1, in the entry beginning “Director of the Holding Company” the words “or the Hotel Company” and the words from “or of” onwards.

In Schedule 3, in the Part substituted by that Schedule for the said Part III, in the entry beginning “Director of the Holding Company” the words from “or of” onwards.

Section 154(1).

Section 188(1).

Section 1(2).

In section 1(3), the words from “except” to “pounds” .

Section 2.

In section 3(3), the words “except section 2” .

B Provisions which refer to the Scottish Transport Group and are brought into force with respect to that Group by the Minister of Transport and the Secretary of State acting jointly but which are brought into force in all other respects by the Minister of Transport

In Part I of the Act

Sections 6, 7 and 8.

In Part III of the Act

Sections 24, 26, 27(1)(b), (c) and (d), 28(4), to (6), and 29(1), (5) and (6).

In Part IV of the Act

Sections 46 to 52.

In Part X of the Act

Sections 134 to 137, 141, 144, 155, 156(1), 156(2) (so far as it relates to those paragraphs in Schedule 16 to the Act specified below), 159, 160 and 161.

In the Schedules to the Act

Schedule 1.

Schedule 4 (except in its application to any transfer under section 17 of the Act).

Schedule 7.

In Schedule 16—paragraphs 3 to 6 and 8 to 12.

C Provisions brought into force by the Minister of Transport and the Secretary of State acting jointly

In Part II of the Act

Sections 9 to 23.

In Part III of the Act

Section 37.

In Part IV of the Act

Section 56.

In Part VIII of the Act

Sections 119, 121 and 122.

In Part IX of the Act

Section 130(5)(c) for the purpose only of enabling procedure regulations to be made under section 84C of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967.

In the Schedules to the Act

Schedule 4 (in its application to any transfer under section 17 of the Act).

Schedules 5 and 6.

In Part V of Schedule 14—the section 84C to be inserted after section 84 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967, but for the purpose only of enabling procedure regulations to be made under the said section 84C.

D Sections relating only to Scotland and brought into force by the Secretary of State

In Part IV of the Act

Section 58.

In Part X of the Act

Sections 151, 152 and 154.

A Provisions brought into force by the Minister of Transport

In Part I of the Act

Sections 3(1)(a) and (e), (2) and (3), 4(1) and (3), and 5(3)(b).

In Part III of the Act

Sections 28(1) and 35.

In Part IV of the Act

Sections 38, 42 and 43.

In Part VII of the Act

Section 112(7).

In Part X of the Act

Sections 150 and 165 (so far as it relates to those provisions of Schedule 18 to the Act specified below).

In the Schedules to the act

In Schedule 18—

(a)In Part I of that Schedule—the following REPEALS IN THE TRANSPORT ACT 1962 (10 & 11 ELIZ. 2. c. 46)—

Section 2.

In section 4, as from the appointed day for the purposes of the transfer to the Bus Company under section 29(2) of this Act, subsection (2)(a) and (b) and subsections (3) and (4).

Section 18(1).

In section 19(3), as from 1st January 1969, paragraph (b) from “but” onwards and paragraph (i).

Sections 20(6), 22(7), 23(2), (3), (5) and (6) and 25(4) .

In section 39(6), the words “Subject to the next following section” .

Sections 40 and 42(2).

In section 53, paragraph (a) of subsection (1), subsection (2), and in subsection (4) the words “paragraph (b) of subsection (2) or” .

Section 56(11), (16) and (18).

In Section 85(1), the words from “Before the entry relating to the Research” onwards.

In Schedule 1, in the heading, the words “ THE REGIONAL RAILWAY BOARDS ” and Part, II.

In Schedule 7, paragraphs 9 and 10.

In Schedule 11, in Part II, in paragraph 1, the words “In subsection (5) of section 2 and” .

(b)In Part III of that Schedule—the following

MISCELLANEOUS REPEALS

B Provisions which refer to the Scottish Transport Group and are brought into force with respect to that Group by the Minister of Transport and the Secretary of State acting jointly but which are brought into force in all other respects by the Minister of Transport

In Part III of the Act

Sections 27(1)(a) and (e), (2) and (3), 28(2) and (3), and 29(2) to (4).

In Part IV of the Act

Sections 41 (except subsection (8)), and 53 to 55.

In the Schedules to the Act

Schedule 2.

C Provisions brought into force by the Minister of Transport and the Secretary of State acting jointly

In Part III of the Act

Sections 34 and 36.

In Part IV of the Act

Section 44.

In Part VIII of the Act

Section 116 (except in so far as it applies to any highway carried by a bridge over an inland waterway of the British Waterways Board or any other installation or land used by that Board in connection with an inland waterway).

Section 117 (except in so far as it applies to any bridge which carries a highway over an inland waterway of the British Waterways Board or any other installation or land used by that Board in connection with an inland waterway).

Section 118.