SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Further amendments: enhanced partnership plans and schemes

Transport Act 2000 (c. 38)

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(1)

Schedule 10 (competition test: functions and agreements relating to buses) is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph 1 (functions to which Part 1 of Schedule 10 applies)—

(a)

after sub-paragraph (1)(b) (and before the “and”) insert—

“(ba)

making and varying enhanced partnership schemes,”;

(b)

after sub-paragraph (2)(b) (and before the “and”) insert—

“(ba)

in the case of the function of making or varying an enhanced partnership scheme, once notice of a proposal to make or vary it has been given under section 138F(1) or 138L(1),”.

(3)

In paragraph 12 (enforcement of decisions of Competition and Markets Authority), in sub-paragraph (2)(b), for “or a ticketing scheme” substitute “ , a ticketing scheme or an enhanced partnership scheme ”.

(4)

In paragraph 17 (interpretation of Part 2 of Schedule 10), in sub-paragraph (5)(c), after “scheme” insert “ , an enhanced partnership scheme ”.