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Transport Act 1980 (c. 34)

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Transport Act 1980

1980 CHAPTER 34

Contents

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  1. Part I

    Public Service Vehicles

    1. Other matters

      1. 1—31... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 32.

      3. 33.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. 34. Obligatory test certificates for passsenger-carrying vehicles

      5. 35.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      6. 36. Abolition of licensing conductors of public service vehicles

      7. 37. Reduction of minimum age for drivers of public service vehicles

      8. 38—41... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      9. 42. Defences available to persons charged with certain offences

      10. 43. Amendments of other Acts

      11. 44.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  2. Part II

    Transfer of Undertaking of National Freight Corporation

    1. Transfer of undertaking of National Freight Corporation to a company limited by shares

      1. 45. Transfer of undertaking of National Freight Corporation

      2. 46. Initial government holding in successor company

      3. 47. Transitional provisions with respect to reserves etc

      4. 48. Dissolution and final accounts of National Freight Corporation

    2. Funding of certain pension obligations

      1. 49. Funding of relevant pension obligations

      2. 50. Meaning of “the relevant pension obligations”

    3. Supplementary

      1. 51. Interpretation of Part II and consequential amendments

  3. PART III

    RAILWAY ETC. PENSIONS

    1. 52. Payments by Minister in respect of B.R. and N.F.C. pension schemes

    2. 52A. Power to make payments by way of final discharge of liabilities under s.52(1)

    3. 52B. Power to substitute obligations under this section for liabilities under s.52(1)

    4. 52C. Adjustments arising in connection with orders under s.52B

    5. 52D. Orders and directions under sections 52A to 52C: supplemental

    6. 53. Meaning of “the relevant pension to a obligations”

    7. 54. Unfunded proportion of relevant pension obligations

    8. 55. Proportion of pensions etc. which corresponds to relevant pension obligations

    9. 56. Reduction of payments in respect of certain supplementation schemes

    10. 57. Exclusion of payments in respect of certain transfer values

    11. 58. Consequential cancellation of debts owed by Board and Corporation

    12. 59. Supplemental provisions

    13. 60. Interpretation of Part III

  4. Part IV

    Miscellaneous and General

    1. 61.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 62. Grants towards duty charged on bus fuel, and new bus grants

    3. 63.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. 64. Roof-signs on vehicle other than taxis

    5. 65. Repeal of s. 2 of 1954 c. 64

    6. 66. Abolition of Freight Integration Council and repeal of certain provisions about special authorisations for use of large goods vehicles

    7. 67. Abolition of Railways and Coastal Shipping Committee

    8. 68. Expenses

    9. 69. Repeals

    10. 70. Citation, etc

  5. SCHEDULES 1—3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  6. SCHEDULE 4

    Increase of Penalties in the 1960 Act

  7. SCHEDULE 5

    Minor and Consequential Amendments Relating to public Service Vehicles

  8. SCHEDULE 6

    Supplementary Provisions with Respect to Transfer under Section 45

  9. SCHEDULE 7

    Amendments Consequential on Part II

  10. SCHEDULE 8

    B.R. Pension Schemes

  11. SCHEDULE 9

    REPEALS

An Act to amend the law relating to public service vehicles; to make provision for and in connection with the transfer of the undertaking of the National Freight Corporation to a company; to provide for the making of payments by the Minister of Transport in aid of certain railway and other pension schemes; to amend Part VI of the Road Traffic Act 1972 as regards car-sharing arrangements; to make amendments about articulated vehicles; to prohibit the display of certain roof-signs on vehicles other than taxis; to abolish the Freight Integration Council and the Railways and Coastal Shipping Committee; to repeal certain provisions about special authorisations for the use of large goods vehicles and about charges on independent tramways, trolley vehicles and the like; and for connected purposes.

[30th June 1980]X1

Annotations:

Editorial Information

X1The text of ss. 32, 34, 37, 42(1)(2), 43(1), 61, 63, 64, 68, 69, 70(1)–(3),(5)–(7), Schs. 4, 5, 9, Pts. I, II, IV was taken from S.I.F Group 107:1 (Road Traffic:General), ss. 45–51, 62, 65–70, Schs. 6, 7, 9 from S.I.F. Group 126 (Transport) and ss. 52–60, 68, 70(1)–(3)(b)(c), Sch. 8 from S.I.F. Group 102 (Railways, Canals and Pipe-lines); provisions omitted from S.I.F. have been dealt with as referred to in other commentary.