
1 
This Order shall come into operation on the 10th February 1969
and may be cited as the Merseyside Passenger Transport Area (Designation)
Order 1969.
2 

(1) In this Order—
 “the Act of 1933” means the Local Government Act 1933;

 “the Act of 1968” means the Transport Act 1968;

 “the appointed day” means the 1st April 1969;
 “the Authority” means 
the Authority for the designated area established in accordance with this
Order;
 “the constituent councils”
means all the county councils, county borough councils
and county district councils whose areas fall wholly or partly within the
designated area;
 “the designated area”
means the Merseyside Passenger Transport Area designated
by Article 3;

 “the Executive” means 
the Passenger Transport Executive for the designated area established in accordance
with this Order;
 “the Minister” means 
the Minister of Transport.
(2) Except where the context
otherwise requires, in this Order—
(a) references to Articles
and Schedules are references to the relevant Articles and Schedules of this
Order, and
(b) references to any enactment
shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under
any subsequent enactment.
(3) Any provision in this Order
requiring or authorising any town clerk or clerk of a constituent council
to do any act or thing shall be construed as a provision authorising that
act or thing to be done by any deputy of his or by any officer or servant
of his council duly authorised in that behalf by him or by his deputy.
(4) The Interpretation Act 1889
shall apply for the interpretation of this Order as it applies for the interpretation
of an Act of Parliament.
3 
The area described in Schedule 1
is hereby designated for the purposes of Part II
of the Act of 1968 by the name of the Merseyside Passenger Transport Area.

4 

(1) As from the appointed day,
there shall be established in accordance with the following provisions of
this Order a Passenger Transport Authority for the designated area which,
subject to the provisions of the Act of 1968 and of this Order, shall consist
of—
(a) 25 members to be appointed
by the constituent councils in accordance with the following provisions of
this Order, and
(b) such number of members
as may be appointed by the Minister in accordance with paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 5
to the Act of 1968.
(2) The Authority shall be
a body corporate by the name of the Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority
and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal.
5 

(1) Subject to the provisions
of this Order,—
(a) each constituent council
named in column 1 of Part I of Schedule
2 shall on or before the appointed day appoint
such number of persons to be a member or members of the Authority as is specified
in relation to that council in column 2 of the said Part I, and
(b) the constituent councils
in each of the groups of such councils which are specified in column 1 of Part II of Schedule 2
shall on or before the appointed day jointly appoint such number of persons
to be a member or members of the Authority as is specified in relation to
that group in column 2 of the said Part II.
(2) Subject to the provisions
of this Order, each member of the Authority appointed under paragraph (1)
of this Article or by the Minister on or before the appointed day shall come
into office on the appointed day, and a member appointed by the Minister after
that day but before the meeting mentioned in paragraph (3) of this Article
shall come into office on such day as may be fixed by his appointment, and
of the members holding office at the date of the said meeting—
(a) 9 shall retire on the
31st May 1970,
(b) 10 shall retire on
the 31st May 1971, and
(c) the remainder shall
retire on the 31st May 1972.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph
(2) of this Article, the members who are to hold office until the dates respectively
specified in that paragraph shall be determined in default of agreement by
lot at a meeting of the Authority within four months after the appointed day,
the lots being drawn under the direction of the person presiding at the meeting.

(4) Subject to the provisions
of this Order, every vacancy, other than a casual vacancy, arising in the
office of a member of the Authority, whether appointed under any of the foregoing
provisions of this Article or under this paragraph or under any of the following
provisions of this Article, shall be filled by the appointment, on or before
the date on which that vacancy will occur, of a person to fill the vacancy
and that appointment shall be made by the council or councils by whom the
person vacating office was appointed or by the Minister if that person was
appointed by him, and every person appointed under this paragraph shall come
into office on the said date and shall continue in office for a period of
three years from that date.
(5) Where for any reason the
office of any member of the Authority becomes vacant before the end of his
term of office, the casual vacancy so arising—
(a) shall, if the unexpired
portion of his term of office is four months or more, be filled by the appointment
under this paragraph of a new member, and
(b) may be so filled in
any other case,and every appointment under this paragraph in respect of any such
vacancy shall, subject to paragraph 5 of part I of Schedule
5 to the Act of 1968, be made by the constituent
council or councils by whom the member vacating office was appointed or, if
he was appointed by the Minister, by the Minister.
(6) Subject to the provisions
of the Act of 1968 and of this Order, a person appointed under paragraph (5)
of this Article to fill a casual vacancy shall hold office so long only as
the vacating member would have held office.
(7) Any member of the Authority
shall, subject to the provisions of the Act of 1968 and of this Order, be
eligible to be re-appointed as such a member for a further term of office
beginning on or after the expiration of his current term.
(8) Notwithstanding anything
contained in the foregoing provisions of this Article, if a constituent council
or group of councils have not been able to appoint a member or members of
the Authority by the date on or before which they are required under those
provisions to make that appointment, they may make that appointment as soon
as practicable thereafter unless the Minister has previously made the appointment
on behalf of that council or those councils under paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule
5 to the Act of 1968. A person appointed to
be a member by an appointment made under this paragraph shall come into office
forthwith and shall hold office until the date on which he would have held
office if he had been appointed by an appointment made on or before the date
by which the appointment was required to be made as aforesaid.
(9) Where the Minister has
under paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule
5 to the Act of 1968 appointed a member or
members of the Authority on behalf of any constituent council or councils,
the member or members so appointed shall come into office on such date as
may be fixed by that appointment and shall hold office until the date on which
he or they would under the foregoing provisions of this Article have held
office if he or they had been appointed by the council or councils on whose
behalf the Minister has made the appointment, and for the purposes of the
application of the foregoing provisions of this Article with respect to the
filling of vacancies in the membership of the Authority the member or members
so appointed shall be treated as if he or they had been appointed by that
council or those councils.
(10) Subject to the following
provisions of this Article, a person appointed as a member of the Authority
by any one of the appointing authorities, that is to say, the Minister, a
constituent council or a group of constituent councils, may not be appointed
as such a member by any other of the appointing authorities for any term of
office which coincides with, or falls partly within, his term of office under
the first mentioned appointment.
(11) If it happens that a
person is appointed as a member of the Authority by more than one of the said
appointing authorities for a term which coincides or overlaps as mentioned
in paragraph (10) above, that person shall within one month of the making
of the last of those appointments choose under which appointment he will serve
as a member and give notice in writing of his choice to the Secretary of the
Authority, or, if no such Secretary has been appointed, to the town clerk
mentioned in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 3,
and thereupon the other appointment or appointments shall be deemed void.

(12) If a person who should
have given notice of his choice under paragraph (11) above fails to do so
within the period specified in that paragraph, he shall be deemed to have
chosen to serve under the appointment first made and have given notice of
his choice under that paragraph immediately before the end of that period.

(13) Where an appointment
is deemed void under the provisions of paragraph (11).above, a further appointment
shall be made as if a casual vacancy in the Authority had arisen.
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(1) As soon as practicable
after each appointment of a member or members of the Authority has been made
by a constituent council or a group of constituent councils, notice in writing
of that appointment, specifying the name, address and description of each
person appointed, shall be given in accordance with the following provisions
of this paragraph, that is to say—
(a) in the case of an appointment
made before the date of the first annual meeting of the Authority by a constituent
council named in column 1 of Part I of Schedule
2 (other than the Liverpool City Council) the
notice shall be given by the town clerk or clerk of the council making the
appointment to the town clerk of the City of Liverpool.
(b) in the case of an appointment
made on or after the date of the said annual meeting by a constituent council
named in column 1 of Part I of Schedule
2 the notice shall be given by the town clerk
or clerk of the council making the appointment to the Secretary of the Authority.

(c) in the case of a joint
appointment by a group of councils specified in column 1 of Part II of Schedule
2 the notice shall be given by the town clerk
or clerk of the council in that group first named in the said column 1 to
the town clerk of the City of Liverpool where the joint appointment is made
before the date of the said first annual meeting and to the Secretary of the
Authority in any other case.
(2) The town clerk of the City
of Liverpool shall as soon as practicable after his council have, before the
date of the said first annual meeting, appointed a member of the Authority
give notice in writing to the Minister and to all other constituent councils
of that appointment, specifying the name, address and description of the person
so appointed, and shall also give notice in writing—
(a) to the Minister (except
where the appointment in question was made by the Minister) and all the constituent
councils (other than the particular council making the appointment in question)
of all appointments of members of the Authority of which he receives notice
under the provisions of this Article, and
(b) to the Secretary of
the Authority of any appointment made by his council at any time and also
of all appointments of such members of which he has received notice under
the provisions of this Article,specifying in each case the constituent council, group of constituent
councils, or the Minister (as the case may be) by whom the appointments have
been made and the names, addresses and descriptions of the persons so appointed.

(3) The Minister shall give
notice in writing of all appointments of members from time to time made by
him—
(a) to the town clerk of
the City of Liverpool, in the case of appointments made before the date of
the said first annual meeting, and
(b) to the Secretary of
the Authority, in all other cases,and such notice shall specify in each case the names, addresses
and descriptions of the persons so appointed.
(4) The Secretary of the Authority
shall give notice in writing to the Minister of all appointments of members
of the Authority from time to time made under this Order by any constituent
council or group of constituent councils, specifying the names, addresses
and descriptions of the persons so appointed, and shall keep all constituent
councils notified of all appointments of members of the Authority from time
to time made under this Order, whether by a constituent council or a group
of constituent councils or by the Minister.
7 
The Authority shall as soon as practicable after the appointed
day cause notice of their establishment to be published in such local newspapers
circulating in the designated area as they may think appropriate for informing
persons appearing to them to be likely to be concerned.
8 

(1) A member of the Authority
may resign his office at any time by notice in writing under his hand given
to the Secretary of the Authority, and his resignation shall take effect upon
the receipt of such notice by the said Secretary.
(2) A member of the Authority
who becomes disqualified for being such a member shall vacate his office immediately
upon becoming so disqualified.
(3) A member of the Authority
shall also vacate his office if he has throughout a period of six consecutive
months failed to attend any meeting of the Authority, unless the failure was
due to illness or some other reason approved before or during that period
by the Authority, but for the purposes of this paragraph attendance as a member
at a meeting of any committee or sub-committee of the Authority shall be regarded
as attendance at a meeting of the Authority.
(4) Whenever a casual vacancy
arises in the office of a member of the Authority (whether by reason of any
of the foregoing provisions of this Article or by reason of 
paragraph 3 or 4 of Part I of Schedule 5 to
the Act of 1968 or otherwise howsoever), the Secretary of the Authority shall
forthwith notify the vacancy so arising to the constituent council or group
of constituent councils responsible for appointing a member to fill that vacancy
or, where the member was appointed by the Minister otherwise than under paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule 5
to the Act of 1968, to the Ministers.
9 
A person shall be disqualified for being a member of the Authority
at any time if at that time—
(a) he holds any paid office
(other than that of Chairman of the Authority) of or under the Authority,
or
(b) he is precluded by virtue
of the provisions of paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule
5 to the Act of 1968 from being appointed to
be such a member, or
(c) he is disqualified for
being a member of a local authority by virtue of the provisions contained
in section 59(1)(b), (d), (e) or (f)
of the Act of 1933.
10 

(1) Each constituent council
or group of constituent councils appointing a member of the Authority may,
at the same time or at any time while any member so appointed holds office,
appoint a person to act as a deputy for that member by attending and voting
at any meeting of the Authority from which that member is absent.
(2) A person who is appointed
to be a deputy for a member may not, so long as his appointment continues,
be appointed to act as a deputy for any other member.
(3) A person appointed to
be a deputy may, subject to the provisions of this Order, be so appointed
for such period and on such terms and conditions as may be specified in the
appointment, but any person so appointed may at any time resign his office
by notice in writing given to the town clerk or clerk of the council by whom
he was appointed or in the case of a member appointed by a group of councils
given to the town clerk or clerk of the first named council in that group,
and the town clerk or clerk of the council in question shall, upon receipt
of such notice, forthwith notify the Secretary of the Authority of the resignation.

(4) A person shall cease to
be entitled to act as a deputy for a member if that member vacates his office,
unless that member is forthwith re-appointed as a member.
(5) A person appointed to
be a deputy for a member may also attend and vote at any meeting of any committee
of the Authority, being a meeting of the committee at which the member for
whom he is deputy was entitled to attend and vote and from which that member
was absent.
(6) The provisions of this
Order relating to the giving of notices of the appointment of members of the
Authority and to the disqualification of a person for being such a member
shall apply in relation to any deputy as they apply in relation to the member
for whom he is appointed to act as a deputy.
11 
The provisions contained in Schedule 3
shall have effect with respect to the meetings and proceedings of the Authority.

12 
There may be paid to the Chairman of the Authority such sum by
way or remuneration as the Authority think reasonable.
13 

(1) Sections 112 to 115
and 117
of the Local
Government Act 1948 and any regulations for
the time being having effect under the said section 117 shall apply, with
the necessary modifications, to the Authority and their members as if the
Authority were a body to which Part VI
of that Act applies, for the purpose of regulating the allowances which members
of the Authority are to be entitled to be paid or which they may be paid in
respect of loss suffered or expenditure incurred for the purpose of enabling
them to perform approved duty as defined in the said section 115 as applied
to the Authority as aforesaid.
(2) The following expenses
of members of the Authority, or of any committee or sub-committee thereof,
that is to say—
(a) any reasonable expenses
incurred in attending a conference or meeting convened for the purpose of
discussing any matter connected with the discharge of the functions of the
Authority or the Executive,
(b) subject to paragraph
(3) of this Article, any travelling or other expenses properly incurred in
making official or courtesy visits (whether inside or outside the United Kingdom)
on behalf of the Authority,
(c) any expenses incurred
in the reception or entertainment by way of official courtesy of—
(i) distinguished
persons residing in the designated area or visiting that area, or
(ii) persons representative
of, or connected with, associations or organisations concerned with public
passenger transport, whether inside or outside the United Kingdom,shall be defrayed by the Executive.
(3) The amount to be defrayed
by the Executive under paragraph (2)(b) of this Article in respect of expenses
incurred by a member of the Authority in connection with a visit within the
United Kingdom shall not exceed the payments which the member would have been
entitled to receive by way of travelling allowance or subsistence allowance
under section 113
of the Local
Government Act 1948, if the making of the visit
had been an approved duty of the member within the meaning of that section
as applied by paragraph (1) of this Article.
(4) Section 114(3) of the Local Government Act 1948
shall have effect in relation to the power to defray expenses conferred by
paragraph (2)(a) of this Article as if any such conference or meeting as is
mentioned in the said paragraph (2)(a)
were included in paragraph (c) of the definition
of “approved duty” in section 115
of the said Act of 1948.
(5) The provisions of this
Article shall apply in relation to deputies for members of the Authority,
when acting as deputies, as they apply in relation to the members themselves.

14 
The Authority shall appoint a Secretary and may appoint such other
officers and servants as they may think fit and there may be paid to the officers
and servants of the Authority such remuneration as the Authority may think
fit.
15 

(1) Without prejudice to section 15(5) of the Act of 1968,
the Executive shall defray the remuneration and allowances payable to the
Chairman and any other member of the Authority or to any officer or servant
of the Authority and also all expenses incurred by any officer or servant
of the City of Liverpool in performing any functions conferred or imposed
on him by this Order.
(2) The Executive shall provide
all such accommodation and other facilities as the Authority may require to
enable them and any officer or servant of theirs to exercise their functions
under the Act of 1968 or this Order.
16 

(1) The Authority shall establish
a Passenger Transport Executive for the designated are which shall consist
of—
(a) a Director General
to be appointed (subject to the provisions of Part II of Schedule 5
to the Act of 1968) by the Authority, and
(b) not less than two
nor more than eight other members to be appointed (subject as aforesaid) by
the Authority after consultation with the Director General.
(2) The Executive shall be
established on such date as may be fixed by the Authority, being the earliest
practicable date after the Director General and not less than two other members
of the Executive have been appointed as aforesaid, and the Authority shall
cause notice of the establishment of the Executive on that date to be published
in such local newspapers circulating in the designated area as they may think
appropriate for informing persons appearing to them to be likely to be concerned.

(3) As soon as may be after
their establishment as aforesaid the Executive shall appoint a Secretary.

17 

(1) The application of the
seal of the Executive shall be authenticated by the signature of the Secretary
of the Executive or by some other person authorised by the Executive, either
generally or specially, to act for that purpose.
(2) The provisions of paragraphs 1 to 5 of Part V of Schedule 3
to the Act of 1933 (which provide as to the conduct of business at meetings)
shall apply to the Executive as if the Executive were a local authority and
as if for the references therein to that Act there were substituted references
to this Order, but nothing in those paragraphs shall derogate from the power
of the Executive to delegate to their Director General under Article 21.
(3) The Executive may fix
their quorum and may, subject to the foregoing provisions of this Article,
regulate their own procedure.
18 

(1) The provisions of the
following enactments which relate to the disability of members of local authorities
for taking part in the consideration or discussion of, or for voting on, any
question with respect to contracts, proposed contracts or other matters in
which they have a pecuniary interest, that is to say—
 section 76
of the Act of 1933 (as amended by section 131
of the Local
Government Act 1948 and section 15
of the Local
Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953,

 section 95
of the Act of 1933, and
 section 1
of the Local
Government (Pecuniary Interests) Act 1964,
shall apply, as they apply to members of local authorities or of
any committees or sub-committees of such authorities—
(a) to members of the
Authority and their deputies and to members of any committee or sub-committee
of the Authority, but so that in such application the said provisions shall
have effect as if in the said sections 76
and 95
of the Act of 1933 there were substituted for the references therein to the
clerk of the authority references to the Secretary of the Authority, and
(b) to members of the
Executive or of any committee or sub-committee of the Executive, but so that
in such application the said provisions shall have effect as if—
(i) they referred
only to contracts and proposed contracts and did not extend to other matters,

(ii) 
subsections (7) and (8) were omitted from section 76 of the Act of 1933,

(iii) subsections (5) and (6) were omitted
from section 1 of the Local Government (Pecuniary Interests)
Act 1964, and
(iv) in sections 76 and 95 of the Act
of 1933 there were substituted for the references to the clerk of the authority
references to the Secretary of the Executive.
(2) The provisions of section 123 of the Act of 1933
and of section 2
of the Local
Government (Pecuniary Interests) Act 1964 (which
relate to the disclosure by officers of local authorities of their interest
in contracts or proposed contracts) shall apply in relation to officers and
servants of the Authority or the Executive as they apply in relation to officers
and servants of local authorities.
(3) Section 122 of the Act of 1933
(which disqualifies a person who is a member of a local authority for being
appointed by that authority to any paid office while his membership continues
and for twelve months thereafter) shall apply in relation to members of the
Authority as it applies in relation to members of local authorities, but as
if the reference therein to any paid office included a reference to any paid
office of or under the Authority (except the office of Chairman of the Authority),
to the office of Director General or other member of the Executive and to
any office, appointment or employment under or with the Executive or any subsidiary
thereof and as if the reference therein to being appointed by the local authority
included a reference (in the case of any office, appointment or employment
under or with the Executive or any subsidiary thereof) to appointment by the
Executive or subsidiary as the case may be.
(4) Subsections (4) to (9) of section 12
of the General
Rate Act 1967. (which contains provisions as
to precepts) shall apply to the Authority as they apply to a precepting authority
named in subsection (1)
of that section, but as if in subsection (8)
for the second reference to the precepting authority there were substituted
a reference to the Executive.
(5) Sections 287(1), 288 and 289 of the
Act of 1933 (which relate to public notices or other documents required to
be given or displayed by local authorities) shall apply in relation to the
Authority as they apply in relation to a local authority, but as if any reference
therein to the area of a local authority were a reference to the designated
area.
(6) Section 130 of the Local Government Act 1948(which
relates to insurance by local authorities against accidents to members) shall
apply to the Authority and the Executive as it applies to a local authority.

(7) Section 202(2)(a)
of the Road
Traffic Act 1960 (which provides that the requirements
of section 201
of that Act as to users of motor vehicles being insured or secured against
third party risks are not to apply to a vehicle owned by any such local authority
as is mentioned in the said subsection (2)(a)) shall apply to a vehicle owned
by the Executive, or by any subsidiary of the Executive, as it applies to
a vehicle owned by any local authority so mentioned.
(8) Section 212 of the Act of 1933
(which relates to the repayment of sums borrowed by a local authority by way
of mortgage) and section 277
of the said Act (which relates to the appearance of local authorities in legal
proceedings) shall respectively apply in relation to the Executive as they
apply in relation to a local authority.
19 

(1) The superannuation fund
maintained under the Local Government Superannuation Acts 1937 to 1953 by
the Liverpool City Council shall be the fund in the benefits of which persons
who are or have been employed by the Authority, the Executive or a subsidiary
of the Executive are entitled to participate, but such entitlement shall be
subject to the provisions of those Acts as applied by this Article.
(2) Without prejudice to paragraph 5 of Part II of Schedule 5
to the Act of 1968, the provisions of the Local Government Superannuation
Acts 1937 to 1953 and of any instruments for
the time being in force under any of those Acts (which provisions are hereafter
in this Article referred to as “the said provisions”) shall, subject
as hereafter provided in this and the succeeding paragraphs of this Article,
apply to persons who are or have been members of the Executive, or officers
or servants of the Authority or the Executive, or directors, officers or servants
of a subsidiary of the Executive as they apply to persons who are or have
been officers or servants of a local authority not being either a local authority
specified in Part I of Schedule 1
to the Local
Government Superannuation Act 1937 or a local
Act authority, but—
(a) in their application
to persons who are or have been officers or servants of the Authority or directors,
officers or servants of a subsidiary of the Executive, the said provisions
shall have effect as if the Authority or the subsidiary (as the case may be)
were the Executive, so that for the purposes of the said provisions the Executive
shall be the employing authority in relation to those persons, and
(b) in their application
to persons who are officers or servants of the Authority or of the Executive
or of a subsidiary of the Executive, the said provisions shall have effect
as if at the end of paragraph (c) of section 3(2)
 of the Local Government Superannuation Act 1937
there were added the words “or who is an officer or
servant belonging to a class or description which the authority have by a
statutory resolution specified as a class or description the members of, or
persons falling within, which are to be contributory employees”,
and
(c) in their application
to persons who are or have been members of the Executive or directors of a
subsidiary of the Executive, the said provisions shall have effect as if service
as such a member or director were service in the employment of the Executive.

(3) The Executive shall not,
without the consent of the Authority—
(a) resolve that a member
of the Executive shall be a contributory employee for the purposes of the
said provisions, or
(b) exercise as respects
a person who is or has been a member of the Executive any power given to them
by the said provisions as the employing authority which would have the effect
of sanctioning the conferment, on or in respect of that person in connection
with his service as such a member, of any superannuation privilege or benefit
(including any increase in such privilege or benefit and any extension of
his service for superannuation purposes) to which he would not be entitled
under the said provisions if that power were not exercised.
(4) The Executive shall not
resolve that a member of the Executive or a director of a subsidiary of the
Executive shall be a contributory employee for the purpose of the said provisions
unless his service as such a member or director is whole time service, that
is to say, service to which he is required by the terms of his appointment
to devote substantially the whole of his time.
(5) Any expression used in
this Article which is also used in the Local Government Superannuation
Act 1937 has the same meaning in this Article
as it has in that Act.
(6) This Article shall be
without prejudice to section 10(1)(xxx)
of. and paragraph
4 of Part II of Schedule 5 to, the Act of 1968.

20 

(1) The Authority and the
Executive may each appoint committees for any such purposes as in the opinion
of the Authority or the Executive would be better regulated and managed by
means of a committee and, except as provided in paragraph (2) of this Article,
any such committee shall consist wholly of members of the Authority or the
Executive, as the case may be.
(2) Where a committee is appointed
by the Authority or the Executive for the exercise of functions which are
advisory only, the committee may consist wholly or partly of persons who are
not members of the Authority or the Executive, as the case may be, but so
however that a member of the Executive shall not be appointed to a committee
of the Authority.
(3) The Authority and the
Executive may delegate to any committee appointed by them, with or without
restrictions or conditions as they think fit, the exercise of any of their
functions except—
(a) in the case of a delegation
by the Authority, their power to issue precepts or to give any such approval
as is mentioned in section 15(2)
of the Act of 1968, and
(b) in the case of a delegation
by the Executive—
(i) their power to
borrow money, and
(ii) their power
to pass a statutory resolution under section 3(2)
of the Local
Government Superannuation Act 1937 as applied
by Article 19.

(4) The Authority and the
Executive may make rules with respect to the meetings and proceedings of any
committee appointed by them (including quorum, place of meeting, notices to
be given at meetings and the appointment of a Chairman or Vice Chairman),
but subject to any rules so made any such committee may regulate their own
procedure.
21 
The Executive may delegate to their Director General, subject to
such restrictions or conditions as they may think fit, the exercise of any
functions of the Executive which under Article 20
may be delegated by them to a committee.
22 
The validity of anything done by the Authority or the Executive
or any committee thereof shall not be affected by any vacancy in their membership
or by any defect in the appointment, or the qualification for appointment,
of the Chairman of the Authority or the Director General of the Executive
or of any other member of the Authority or the Executive, or of any member
of any such committee.
23 
Every document purporting to be an instrument issued by the Authority
or the Executive and to be sealed with the seal of the Authority or the Executive
and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 or of Article 17(1)
or to be signed on behalf of the Authority or the Executive by their Secretary
or by some other person authorised by the Authority or the Executive, either
generally or specially, to act for that purpose shall be received in evidence
and be deemed to be such a document without further proof unless the contrary
is proved.
24 
The permitted distance for the purposes of section 10(1)(ii)(b) of the Act
of 1968 (which empowers the Executive to carry passengers by any form of water
transport between any place in the designated area and any place outside that
area within the permitted distance from the nearest point on the boundary
of that area) shall be a distance of 25 miles.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Minister of Transport the
27th January 1969.
Richard Marsh
Minister of Transport

SCHEDULE 1

The designated area is the area
which consists of all the following local authority areas or parts of such
areas, that is to say—
(a) the county boroughs of the City of Liverpool,
Birkenhead, Bootle and Wallasey;
(b) so much of the administrative county
of the County Palatine of Chester as is comprised in the following county
districts, that is to say—
(i) the borough of Bebington;
(ii) the urban districts of Hoylake, Neston
and Wirral;
(c) so much of the administrative county
of the County Palatine of Lancaster as is comprised in the following county
districts or parts of such districts, that is to say—
(i) the borough of Crosby;
(ii) the urban districts of Formby, Huyton-with-Roby,
Kirkby, Litherland and Prescot;
(iii) so much of the rural district of West
Lancashire as is comprised in the following parishes—
 Aintree, Altcar, Aughton, Ince Blundell, Lydiate, Maghull,
Melling, Netherton, Sefton and Thornton;
(iv) so much of the rural district of Whiston
as is comprised in the following parishes—
 Hale, Halewood, Knowsley, Rainhill, Tarbock and Whiston.

SCHEDULE 2
PART I

(1) (2)
Name of Council Number of members
Chester County Council 1
Lancaster County Council 2
Birkenhead County Borough Council 2
Bootle County Borough Council 1
Liverpool City Council 10
Wallasey County Borough Council 2
Bebington Borough Council 1
PART II

(1) (2)
Groups Number of members to be appointed by each group
Birkenhead County Borough Council
Bootle County Borough Council 1
Crosby Borough CouncilFormby Urban
District Council 1
Hoylake Urban District CouncilNeston
Urban District CouncilWirral Urban District Council
 1
Huyton-with-Roby Urban District Council
Prescot Urban District Council 1
Kirkby Urban District CouncilLitherland
Urban District Council 1
West Lancashire Rural District Council
Whiston Rural District Council 1
SCHEDULE 3
1 

(1) The first meeting
of the Authority shall be convened by the town clerk of the City of Liverpool
for such day (not being later than one month after the appointed day) and
at such time and place as may be fixed by the said.town clerk who shall, not
less than 14 days before the day fixed for that meeting, send notice of that
meeting by post to each member of the Authority of whose appointment the said
town clerk has been notified
(2) The said town clerk
shall, until such time as the Authority have appointed their Secretary, exercise
all such functions on behalf of the Authority as are imposed by this Order
on the said Secretary or as might be expected to be exercised by a person
appointed to be the Secretary of such a body as the Authority, and as respects
anything occurring or falling to be done under or in relation to this Order
before such appointment has been made the references in this Order to the
Secretary of the Authority shall be construed as references to the said town
clerk.
(3) The first business
to be transacted at the first meeting of the Authority shall be the appointment
in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule of a person to act as Chairman
of the Authority, and for the purposes of the transaction of this business
the chair at that meeting shall be taken by the Lord Mayor of the City of
Liverpool or, if he is unable to be present at that meeting, by such person
(not being a member of the Authority) as has been nominated to do so by the
said Lord Mayor, but no person taking the chair at that meeting by virtue
of this sub-paragraph shall be entitled to cast any vote in connection with
the transaction of the business aforesaid.
(4) A certificate purporting
to be signed by the town clerk of the City of Liverpool that any person has
been nominated by the Lord Mayor of that City as mentioned in sub-paragraph
(3) above shall be conclusive evidence of the inability of the said Lord Mayor
to be present at the said first meeting of the Authority and of the fact of
the nomination of that person.
2 

(1) The first meeting
of the Authority after their establishment shall be the annual meeting of
the Authority for the year 1969 and the first meeting of the Authority after
the 31st May in any subsequent year shall be the annual meeting for that year.

(2) In every year after
1969 the Authority shall hold their annual meeting as soon as possible after
the 31st May and in any event before the 31st July in that year.
(3) The Authority shall
between each annual meeting hold at least three other meetings for the transaction
of general business and such other meetings shall be held as nearly as may
be at regular intervals.
3 

(1) Subject to paragraph 5 of this Schedule,
the Authority shall at their annual meeting in each year appoint one of their
members to be Chairman of the Authority and the person so appointed shall
come into office forthwith and continue in office until his successor becomes
entitled to act as Chairman:provided that subject to
the provisions of this Schedule any Chairman shall be eligible for re-appointment
at the expiration of the term for which he is to hold office and if so re-appointed
shall continue in office accordingly.
(2) The Authority may
at each annual meeting appoint one of their number to be Vice Chairman and
the provisions of the last foregoing sub-paragraph shall apply in relation
to a Vice Chairman as they apply in relation to a Chairman.
(3) The appointment of
a Chairman of the Authority shall be the first business to be transacted at
each annual meeting of the Authority.
4 

(1) Subject to paragraph 5 of this Schedule,
on a casual vacancy occurring in the office of Chairman or Vice Chairman the
vacancy shall be filled by the appointment by the Authority of one their members
at a meeting to be held as soon as practicable after the vacancy occurs. Where
the office so becoming vacant is that of Chairman, such a meeting may be convened
by the Secretary of the Authority.
(2) A person appointed
under this paragraph to fill a vacancy shall hold office for the period for
which the person in whose place he is appointed would have held office and
shall then vacate his office but shall be eligible for re-appointment.
5 

(1) A person appointed
to be Chairman of the Authority may act as such only for the purpose of presiding
at the meeting at which he is appointed unless his appointment is approved
by the Minister.
(2) If in the case of
a person appointed to be Chairman of the Authority the Minister decides not
to approve the appointment, then as from the date on which the Minister notifies
his decision to the Authority there shall for the purposes of paragraph 4 of this Schedule be
deemed to be a casual vacancy in the office of Chairman, but this provision
shall be without prejudice to the right of a previous Chairman to continue
in office under paragraph 3
of this Schedule until his successor becomes entitled to act as Chairman.

6 

(1) The Chairman of the
Authority may call a meeting of the Authority at any time.
(2) If the Chairman refuses
to call a meeting of the Authority after a requisition for that purpose signed
by 5 members of the Authority has been presented to him or if, without so
refusing, the Chairman does not call a meeting within 14 days after such requisition
has been presented to him, any 5 members of the Authority may forthwith call
a meeting of the Authority.
(3) At least 7 clear
days before a meeting of the Authority—
(a) notice of the
time and place of the intended meeting shall be published at the offices of
the Executive or at such other place as is fixed for the meeting of the Authority,
and
(b) a summons to
attend the meeting specifying the business proposed to be transacted thereat
shall be left at or sent by post to the usual place of residence of every
member of the Authority.
(4) In a case where the
meeting is called by members of the Authority under sub-paragraph (2) above
the notice referred to in sub-paragraph (3)(a)
above shall be signed by those members and shall specify the business proposed
to be transacted thereat, and no business other than that specified in the
said notice shall be transacted at a meeting so called.
(5) Want of service on
a member of the Authority of the summons referred to in sub-paragraph (3)(b) above shall not affect the validity of the meeting.

7 
The provisions of paragraphs 1 to 5 of Part V of Schedule
3 to the Act of 1933 (which provide as to the
conduct of business at meetings) shall apply to the Authority as if the Authority
were a local authority and as if for the references therein to that Act there
were substituted references to this Order.
8 
Copies of the minutes kept of the proceedings
of each meeting of the Authority shall be sent by the Secretary of the Authority
to the town clerk or clerk of every constituent council and to the Director
General and each other member of the Executive not later than 21 days after
the meeting.
9 
There shall be sent to every deputy of a member
of the Authority copies of all notices of meetings and other papers which
are sent to that member in connection with any such meeting.
10 
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this
Schedule, the Authority may make rules with respect to the meetings and proceedings
of the Authority (including quorum, place of meeting and notices to be given
of meetings) and subject as aforesaid and to any rules so made the Authority
may regulate their own procedure.
11 
The application of the seal of the Authority
shall be authenticated by the signature of the Secretary of the Authority
or some other person authorised by the Authority, either generally or specially,
to act for the purpose.