Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981

41 Relaxation in trial areas of operators' duties to co-operate and exchange information

(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, the duties of public passenger transport operators under the provisions mentioned in subsection (2) below, being duties to co-operate with and afford information to one another, shall not apply in relation to a service so far as it is provided within a trial area.

(2) The provisions referred to in subsection (1) above are—

(a) section 24(2) and (3) of the [1968 c. 73.] Transport Act 1968 (services in passenger transport areas);

(b) section 1(1)(c) of the [1978 c. 55.] Transport Act 1978 (services in England and Wales outside passenger transport areas); and

(c) section 151(1)(b) of the [1973 c. 65.] Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (services in Scotland outside passenger transport areas).

(3) Subsection (1) above shall not affect the duties of public passenger transport operators to co-operate with or afford information to—

(a) a Passenger Transport Executive;

(b) a county council; or

(c) a regional or islands council,

for the purpose of the discharge by any such Executive or council of its function of co-ordinating passenger transport services.

(4) In this section " public passenger transport operators " means persons providing public passenger transport services within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Transport Act 1978.