
1 
This Order may be cited as the Transport Act 1978 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1978.
2 
The provisions of the Transport Act 1978 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’) which are specified in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order and which relate to the matters respectively specified in relation to those provisions in column (2) of that Schedule shall come into force on 4th August 1978.
William Rodgers
Secretary of State for Transport
3rd August 1978
THE SCHEDULE


(1) (2)
Provisions of the Act Subject matter of provisions
Section 15. Transfer of controlling interest in Freightliners Limited.
Section 17. Reduction of capital debt of National Freight Corporation.
Section 18. Capital grants to National Freight Corporation.
Section 21. Travel concessions for transferred employees.
Section 23. Finance.
Section 24(1), (2), (3) and (so far as it relates to the repeal in Schedule 4 mentioned below) (4). Commencement, interpretation, repeals.
The entry in Schedule 4 relating to paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the Transport Act 1968. Repeals.