Transport (Scotland) Act 2001

[F1 3B Schemes to implement bus services partnership plans S

(1) A local transport authority must, at the same time as making a partnership plan, make one or more bus services improvement partnership schemes (a “partnership scheme”) relating to the whole or part of the area to which the plan relates.

(2) A local transport authority that have made a partnership plan may make such further partnership schemes relating to the whole or part of the area of the partnership plan as they consider appropriate.

(3) A partnership scheme is a scheme that—

(a) specifies the area and the period to which the scheme relates,

(b) imposes one or more service standards in relation to the local services that have one or more stopping places in that area, and

(c) specifies one or more—

(i) facilities to be provided in the area as part of the scheme, or

(ii) measures to be taken under the scheme,

by the local transport authority.

(4) A partnership scheme may—

(a) provide for the exemption of such local services or such descriptions of local services as the scheme may specify, and

(b) specify conditions (if any) as to when such exemptions are to apply.

(5) A partnership scheme may also include requirements for the taking of actions in order to facilitate the operation of the partnership scheme.

(6) A partnership scheme may be made only if the local transport authority are satisfied that—

(a) the scheme will contribute to the implementation of—

(i) the policies set out in the partnership plan to which it relates, and

(ii) the authority's relevant general policies, and

(b) the scheme will—

(i) bring benefits to persons using local services in the whole or any part of the area to which the scheme relates by improving the quality or effectiveness of those services, or

(ii) reduce or limit traffic congestion, noise or air pollution.

(7) Any specified facility must be provided at specific locations along routes served, or proposed to be served, by local services within the area of the partnership scheme.

(8) Nothing that a local transport authority are required to provide or secure the provision of by virtue of section 33 or 34 is to be specified as a facility or measure for the purposes of a partnership scheme.

(9) A partnership scheme must specify how its operation is to be reviewed and the dates by which reviews are to be completed.

(10) A partnership scheme may provide for circumstances in which it may be varied or revoked in accordance with the provisions of the scheme (rather than under section 3H or, as the case may be, 3I).

(11) To make a partnership scheme a local transport authority must comply with Part 1 of schedule A1.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 substituted for ss. 3-12 and cross-heading (4.12.2023) by Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 17), ss. 35(2), 130(2) (with s. 126) (as amended (27.11.2023) by S.S.I. 2023/347, regs. 1(1), 2(2)); S.S.I. 2023/250, sch.