PART 4INFORMATION AND DATA

Provision of information to the Welsh Ministers for the purposes of exercising certain functions

28Provision of information about infrastructure and certain other matters to the Welsh Ministers by local authorities and community councils for the purposes of functions under Part 2

(1)

The Welsh Ministers may give notice under this section to a local authority or a community council requiring the authority or the council to provide the Welsh Ministers with information specified in the notice.

(2)

The notice must specify how and when the information is to be provided.

(3)

Information may not be specified in the notice unless—

(a)

the Welsh Ministers consider that the information is needed for the purposes of the exercise of their functions under Part 2, and

(b)

the information is of a kind that is specified in regulations under this section.

(4)

Regulations under this section may specify information about (among other things)—

(a)

routes;

(b)

points where passengers are permitted to embark onto, and disembark from, bus services;

(c)

infrastructure, including road transport and highways infrastructure;

(d)

the operation of bus services;

(e)

the availability of public passenger transport services and of section 19 services;

(f)

amenities and facilities (including active travel routes and related facilities).