Explanatory Notes

Transport (Scotland) Act 2019

2019 asp 17

15 November 2019

The Act

Part 3 – Bus Services

Bus services improvement partnerships

Cancellation of registration when operational service standards not met – inserted section 6L

168.Section 6L (read with the new subsection (7ZA) of section 6) enables the traffic commissioner to cancel a registration in circumstances where the traffic commissioner considers that an operator is not providing a registered service in accordance with an operational service standard that has been imposed in relation to the service (or services) that the operator provides.

169.It is worth noting that the wording of subsection (2) gives the traffic commissioner discretion about cancelling the registration in order to enable other means of resolving the situation to be explored first (including the imposition of penalties or attaching conditions to the registration).