Decision Maker: West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
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.
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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