(1) This section applies if—
(a) a Transport Restructuring Order—
(i) imposes duties and confers functions or powers on a sector transport agency under transport legislation; and
(ii) provides that those duties, functions and powers are only to be performed or exercised by that sector transport agency on an ongoing basis; and
(b) the duties, functions and powers referred to in paragraph (a)(ii) were all of the duties imposed and functions and powers conferred on another sector transport agency (the previous transport sector agency ); and
(c) the previous transport sector agency continues to exist.
(2) On and after the day on which the Transport Restructuring Order comes into operation, the previous transport sector agency is taken to have the following functions, powers and duties—
(a) the duty to comply with any direction given to it by the Minister or Secretary under this Act;
(b) the function of providing any support or assistance that the Minister, the Secretary and any other transport sector agency requires to enable them to give effect to the Transport Restructuring Order;
(c) the power to do all things that are necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with, or as incidental to, the performance of the duty under paragraph (a) and the function under paragraph (b);
(d) the duty to have regard to the transport system objectives in exercising its powers and performing the function under paragraph (b).
S. 65E inserted by No. 3/2017 s. 3.