The Bus Services Improvement Partnerships (Objections) (Scotland) Regulations 2024

Meaning of a “qualifying local service”

2.—(1) For the purposes of Parts 1 and 2 of schedule A1 of the 2001 Act a local service is a qualifying local service for an area mentioned in those Parts if—

(a) the traffic commissioner has accepted an application for registration, or variation of the registration, of the local service under section 6 of the 1985 Act,

(b) it is not an excluded local service, and

(c) it has one or more stopping places in that area.

(2) For the purposes of Part 3 of schedule A1 of the 2001 Act a local service is a qualifying local service if—

(a) the traffic commissioner has accepted an application for registration, or variation of the registration, of the local service under section 6 of the 1985 Act,

(b) it is not an excluded local service, and

(c) in the case of—

(i) the revocation of a partnership plan, it has one or more stopping places in the area of the plan being revoked, or

(ii) the revocation of a partnership scheme, it has one or more stopping places in the area of the scheme being revoked.

(3) In this regulation, an “excluded local service” means—

(a) a local service in respect of which the traffic commissioner has accepted an application under section 6 of the 1985 Act for the cancellation, or variation, of its registration where the effect of the cancellation or variation is that the local service to which the application relates will no longer have one or more stopping places in the relevant area,

(b) a service or any part of a service provided directly by a local transport authority,

(c) a service or any part of a service which is subsidised under section 9A(4) of the Transport Act 1968(1) or, as the case may be, section 63(5) of the 1985 Act(2) where the local transport authority keeps all of the revenue obtained by operating the service,

(d) a service in respect of which a community bus permit has been granted under section 22 of the 1985 Act(3).

(1)

1968 c. 73. Section 9A(4) was inserted by section 57(2) of the 1985 Act and relevantly amended by section 60(2) of the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 (asp 1).

(2)

Section 63(5) was amended by section 12 of the 2001 Act, section 60(3)(a) of the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 (asp 1) and section 68(2) of the Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26).

(3)

Section 22 was amended by schedule 7 of the Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), S.I. 2013/1644, and S.I. 2019/572.