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EREAS—

(1) Under the Transport Acts 1968 and 1985 it is the general duty of the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (hereinafter called "the Executive") to secure the provision of public passenger transport services for meeting the public transport requirements of their area in accordance with general policies formulated by the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority:

(2) It is expedient that the Executive should be empowered to construct the works authorised by this Act, and to acquire or use the lands referred to in this Act, for the extension of the light rail transit system for the City of Sheffield authorised by the by the addition to that system of a route in the Lower Don Valley between Park Square and Meadowhall in the City, passing through part of the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham: