Decision details

Consent to Regulations Establishing Transport for the North

Decision Maker: West Yorkshire Combined Authority

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

To ask WYCA to confirm the consent previously given in principle to regulations establishing Transport for the North (TfN) as a statutory body and granting TfN the concurrent exercise of specified WYCA functions.

Decision:

Resolved:

 

(i)         That it be noted that Transport for the North are now liaising directly with each West Yorkshire district council to seek the consent of each individual district to the regulations, in so far as they provide for Transport for the North to exercise concurrent highways functions with those districts, once it is established as a Sub-National Transport Body.

 

(ii)        That WYCA confirm the consent previously given in principle to the making of regulations, attached at Appendix 1 of the submitted report, by the Secretary of State for Transport to establish Transport for the North as a Sub-National Transport Body under section 102E of the Local Transport Act 2008, and which provide for Transport for the North to exercise concurrent functions with  its constituent authorities, including WYCA.

Report author: Liz Hunter

Publication date: 06/10/2017

Date of decision: 05/10/2017

Decided at meeting: 05/10/2017 - West Yorkshire Combined Authority

Effective from: 17/10/2017

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