C1C2C3C4C5C6C7C8C9C10C11C12C13C14C15C16Part II Local transport
Pt. 2: transfer of functions (1.4.2014) by The Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/865), arts. 1, 8(1)(b) (with arts. 8(4), 12)
Pt. 2: transfer of functions (15.4.2014) by The Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland Combined Authority Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1012), arts. 1, 8, 9 (with art. 11)
Pt. 2: delegation of functions (1.4.2016) by The Tees Valley Combined Authority Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/449), arts. 1(a), 6(b)
Pt. 2 functions made exercisable (9.2.2017) by The West of England Combined Authority Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/126), arts. 1(3), 8
Pt. 2 functions made exercisable (9.2.2017) by The West of England Combined Authority Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/126), arts. 1(3), 8(1)
Pt. 2 functions made exercisable (3.3.2017) by The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/251), arts. 1(2)(b), 8(b)
Pt. 2 functions made exercisable (8.5.2017) by The Tees Valley Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/431), arts. 1(2), 4(1)(2)
Pt. 2: transfer of functions (2.11.2018) by The Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1133), arts. 1, 7 (with art. 28)
Pt. 2 functions made exercisable (2.11.2018) by The Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1133), arts. 1, 9 (with art. 28)
Pt. 2 applied (with modifications) (W.) (28.2.2022) by The South East Wales Corporate Joint Committee Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/343), regs. 1(3)(b), 12(2)
Pt. 2 applied (with modifications) (30.6.2022) by The North Wales Corporate Joint Committee Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/339), regs. 1(3)(b), 12(2)
Pt. 2 applied (with modifications) (30.6.2022) by The Mid Wales Corporate Joint Committee Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/342), regs. 1(3)(b), 12(2)
Pt. 2 applied (with modifications) (W.) (30.6.2022) by The South West Wales Corporate Joint Committee Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/352), regs. 1(3)(b), 12(2)
Pt. 2: functions made exercisable (20.12.2023) by The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1432), arts. 1(2), 13(1)(2)
Pt. 2: functions made exercisable (28.2.2024) by The East Midlands Combined County Authority Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/232), regs. 1(2), 15(1)
Bus services: quality contracts schemes F9 in Wales
Words in s. 124 cross-heading inserted (27.4.2017 for specified purposes, 27.6.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Bus Services Act 2017 (c. 21), s. 26(3), Sch. 2 para. 6
I1127 Making of scheme.
F21
The authority or authorities who proposed the scheme may make it—
F10a
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
b
F11... in accordance with the requirements of subsection (1B).
F121A
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F21B
If—
F13a
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
b
the Welsh Ministers approve the scheme under section 126,
the authority or authorities who proposed it may make it, as approved, at any time not later than 6 months after the date of the approval.
2
The scheme must specify—
a
the area to which it relates,
F5b
the date on which it is to come into operation or, if the scheme provides for different provisions to come into operation on different dates, or on different dates for different purposes, those dates in the case of each provision, and
c
the period for which it is to remain in operation, which must not be more than ten years F6from the earliest date on which the scheme or any of its provisions comes into operation.
F32A
No date that is to be specified under subsection (2)(b) may be earlier than 6 months after the scheme is made.
3
The scheme must outline—
a
the local services which are to be provided under quality contracts, and
b
the features of the proposed invitations to tender for quality contracts.
F43A
The scheme must specify the date or dates on which it is proposed that the authority or authorities will issue invitations to tender for the provision of any services to which the scheme relates (see section 130).
4
The scheme may provide that—
a
local services specified in it, or
b
local services of a class specified in it,
are to be excluded from the scheme, subject to such conditions (if any) as may be specified in it.
5
The scheme may contain such ancillary provisions as the authority or authorities think fit.
6
The scheme may include provision—
a
varying or revoking any quality partnership scheme which only relates to the area of the authority, or combined area of the authorities, by which the scheme is made, or
b
varying any other quality partnership scheme to the extent that it so relates.
7
If provision is made under subsection (6)(b) to vary the quality partnership scheme so that it no longer so relates, such of the authorities by which it was made as did not make the quality contracts scheme—
a
may (subject to the provision so made) vary it if they decide that it is appropriate to do so, or
b
may revoke it if all persons who have given an undertaking to provide a service to a standard specified in the scheme consent to the revocation of the scheme (which consent must not be unreasonably withheld);
and subsections (3) and (4) of section 120 apply to a variation or revocation under this subsection.
8
Not later than 14 days after the date on which the scheme is made, the authority or authorities must—
a
give notice in at least one newspaper circulating in the area to which the scheme relates, and
b
send a copy of the scheme to F8a traffic commissioner.
9
The notice must state—
a
that the scheme has been made,
b
where a copy of the scheme may be inspected, and
F7c
the date or dates on which the scheme, or the different provisions of the scheme, are to come into operation.
F110
The appropriate national authority may by order vary any of the periods mentioned in subsection F14... (1B) or (2A).
Pt. 2: power to amend conferred (17.10.2007 for specified purposes, 1.4.2008 in so far as not already in force) by Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 (c. 13), ss. 8(1), 9(1)(2), 10(1)(2), 15(1); S.I. 2007/2799, arts. 2, 3 (with art. 4)