The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2001

Variations of registered services

9.—(1) A registered service may be varied without variation of the registration in the cases specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The cases referred to in paragraph (1) are as follows:—

(a) the route of any service may be varied to the extent required to comply with any temporary prohibition or restriction of the use of any road by traffic by or under any enactment or with any direction by a constable;

(b) a service which is provided by an education authority primarily to transport pupils to school may be varied temporarily so far as may be necessary to enable that authority to comply with its duty to provide such transport;

(c) a service may, if the condition set out in paragraph (3) is satisfied, be varied by the provision of additional vehicles which—

(i) are operated over any part of the route of the service; and

(ii) are operated as closely as possible to the timings in the registered timetable.

(3) The condition referred to in paragraph (2)(c) is that the operator of the service has reasonable grounds to believe that, owing to special circumstances, the number of vehicles normally required to provide the service would, at the time the additional vehicles are to be provided, be insufficient to carry all persons wishing to travel on the service or to provide the service in accordance with the registered timetable.