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Senior TC wants statutory role clarification
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CM COVER STORY
By Christopher Walton SENIOR TRAFFIC Commissioner Philip Brown has warned that there is an "urgent requirement for an understanding to be reached on how the government envisages the role of the Senior Traffic Commissioner (TC) functioning': Writing in the Traffic Commissioners' annual report for 2008-09. Brown also questioned what resources will be available to the commissioners to enable the Local Transport Act 2008 to be implemented effectively.
In the report, he also asked: "How will the structure for the new Traffic Commissioner regime he set out, given the responsibilities vested in the statutory Senior Traffic Commissioner by the 2008 Act?"
Brown was granted the position of statutory Senior TC on 4 March 2009, when the Local Transport Act 2008 came into force.
Under its powers, the role of the Senior TC, which was previ ously a purely administrative appointment with no additional powers beyond those of a TC, were strengthened.
Brown is now able to determine how the six other TCs perform their statutory functions, as well as determining which functions each TC works on.
The Act also grants powers to the Secretary of State for Transport, currently Lord Adonis, to issue guidance to the Senior TC,
• Torn to page 10 to read our full seminary of the TCs' annual report.