Part 12Disabled persons: transport
F1CHAPTER 2ABus services
181AInformation for bus passengers
1
The Secretary of State may, for the purpose of facilitating travel by disabled persons, make regulations requiring operators of local services to make available information about a local service to persons travelling on the service.
2
The regulations may make provision about—
a
the descriptions of information that are to be made available;
b
how information is to be made available.
3
The regulations may, in particular, require an operator of a local service to make available information of a prescribed description about—
a
the name or other designation of the local service;
b
the direction of travel;
c
stopping places;
d
diversions;
e
connecting local services.
4
The regulations may, in particular—
a
specify when information of a prescribed description is to be made available;
b
specify how information of a prescribed description is to be made available, including requiring information to be both announced and displayed;
c
specify standards for the provision of information, including standards based on an announcement being audible or a display being visible to a person of a prescribed description in a prescribed location;
d
specify forms of communication that are not to be regarded as satisfying a requirement to make information available.
5
Regulations under this section may make different provision—
a
as respects different descriptions of vehicle;
b
as respects the same description of vehicle in different circumstances.
6
Before making regulations under this section, the Secretary of State must consult—
a
the Welsh Ministers;
b
the Scottish Ministers.
Pt. 12 Ch. 2A inserted (26.6.2018) by Bus Services Act 2017 (c. 21), ss. 17(1), 26(2); S.I. 2018/758, reg. 2