Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 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
(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.]