London Passenger Transport Act 1933

107Interpretation.

(1)In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively—

• " Advisory Committee " means the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee as constituted from time to time under the London Traffic Act, 1924, as amended by this Act;

• " Amalgamated Railway Companies " means the four amalgamated railway companies constituted under the Railways Act, 1921;

• " Appointed day " means—

  (a)

  in relation to the local authorities' undertakings, the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, or such later date in the case of any particular undertaking as the Minister may with the concurrence of the local authority concerned by order fix;

  (b)

  in relation to the Underground undertakings and the Metropolitan undertaking, the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-three;

  (c)

  in relation to a Tilling undertaking, or an independent undertaking, or the Lewis undertaking, such date as the Minister may by order fix not being earlier than the later of the two following dates, that is to say, the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, or the date on which the extent of the transfer effected by this Act in respect of that undertaking is agreed between the owners of the undertaking and the Board or in default of agreement is determined by the arbitration tribunal; and

  (d)

  for the purposes of subsection (7) of section thirty-nine, and of subsection (2) of section forty-six of this Act, the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-three;

• " Arbitration Tribunal " means the London Passenger Transport Arbitration Tribunal constituted under this Act;

• " Chief Officer of Police " means a commissioner of police or a chief constable of a county or a borough;

• " Commissioner of Police " means, in relation to the City of London, the Commissioner of Police of the City of London, and, in relation to the metropolitan police district, the Commissioner of Police of the metropolis;

• " Company " where used in relation to companies specified in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act, includes Lots Road Power House Joint Committee;

• " Debenture Stock " includes debentures, bonds, rentcharge stock and other like securities and obligations;

• " Fares " means fares and other charges in connection with the conveyance of passengers and their luggage;

• " London Passenger Transport Area " means the area defined in Part I of the Seventh Schedule to this Act;

• " London Traffic Area " has the same meaning as in the London Traffic Act, 1924;

• " Minister " means the Minister of Transport;

• " Pooling Scheme " means the scheme confirmed or settled in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one of this Act;

• " Public service vehicle, " " express carriage, " " contract carriage " and " stage carriage " have the same meanings as in the Road Traffic Act, 1930;

• " Rates Tribunal " means the Railway Rates Tribunal established under the Railways Act, 1921;

• " Revenues of the Board " means all receipts of the Board on revenue account from whatever source after the deduction therefrom of any sums paid or due and payable to any of the amalgamated railway companies under or by virtue of the pooling scheme;

• " Special Area " means so much of the London Passenger Transport Area as lies within the London Traffic Area;

• " Statutory Company " means a company incorporated by special Act;

• " Statutory security " does not include any security of the Board, but save as aforesaid, means any security in which trustees are for the time being authorised by or under any statute to invest trust money, and any mortgage or stock granted or issued under statutory authority by any local authority within the meaning of the Local Loans Act, 1875;

• " Suburban passenger services " means the passenger services worked by any of the amalgamated railway companies the receipts from which are or would be covered by the pooling scheme;

• " Traffic commissioner " means a traffic commissioner appointed under the Road Traffic Act, 1930;

• " Tramway " includes a light railway or trolley vehicle system and the expression " tramway undertaking " shall be construed accordingly;

• " Undertaking of the Board " means the whole of the undertaking administered by the Board comprising the undertakings, and those parts of the undertakings which are transferred to the Board by this Act, and any undertakings or parts of undertakings which under this Act are from time to time acquired, taken on lease or established by the Board.

(2)For the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to the interest on transport stock, or to the application of the revenues of the Board, or to the reserve fund, or to the tramway debt liquidation fund, or to the accounts of the Board and their audit, or to the new assented stock referred to in subsection (2) of section eighty-eight of this Act, and for the purposes of section eighty-nine of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression " year " means the period commencing on the first day of July and ending on the succeeding thirtieth day of June and the expressions " annually," " annual," " per annum," " half-yearly " and " yearly " shall be construed accordingly.

(3)For the purposes of sections twenty-seven to thirty-five of this Act, both inclusive, the expression " local authority" means the Common Council of the City of London, the council of a metropolitan borough or the council of any county, county borough or county district whose area or any part of whose area is comprised in the London Passenger Transport Area or is served by the railway which was immediately before the appointed day the railway of the Metropolitan Railway Company or by any of the suburban passenger services.

(4)For the purposes of section five of this Act any rights, powers or privileges and any liabilities or obligations which were immediately before the appointed day vested in or attached to the Metropolitan and District Joint Committee shall be deemed to be rights, powers and privileges and liabilities and obligations of the Metropolitan Railway Company and of the Metropolitan District Railway Company jointly, and for the purposes of Part VII and of sections eighty-two, eighty-three, eighty-five, and eighty-seven of this Act the said Joint Committee shall be deemed to be a company owning an undertaking specified in Part I or Part II of the Second Schedule to this Act.