Commentary on Sections Section 1: General transport duty
10.Section 1 imposes on the Assembly a general transport duty. This is a duty on the Assembly to develop policies for the promotion and encouragement of safe, integrated, sustainable, efficient and economic transport facilities and services to, from, and within Wales and to carry out its functions so as to implement those policies. The general transport duty provides a clear statement of the principles which are to govern the Assembly's exercise of its powers in the field of transport. The effect of imposing the general transport duty on the Assembly is to provide general statutory authority under section 85 of the Government of Wales Act 1998 for expenditure by the Assembly in connection with the discharge of that duty.