Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 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.
(1)This section applies where—
(a)a partnership scheme is in operation,
(b)a route service standard imposed by the scheme applies to a service registered under section 6 of the 1985 Act, and
(c)the local transport authority who made the scheme are satisfied that, due to an increase (or an expected increase) in the number of operators registered in respect of the area of the scheme, the service cannot be provided in accordance with the route service standard.
(2)The local transport authority must modify the route service standard in such manner as is necessary to take account of the number of registered operators (or expected number of such operators) to enable the service to be provided in accordance with the service standard.
(3)A modification of a route service standard under this section is to be treated as a variation under section 3H of the partnership scheme which imposed the service standard and paragraph 18(3) of schedule A1 applies to the modification as it does to such a variation.
(4)Without limit to the generality of section 3M, the Scottish Ministers may by regulations make further provision about the modification of route service standards under this section, including, in particular, provision—
(a)about the process that a local transport authority must comply with before making a modification under this section,
(b)about the circumstances in which a modification may be postponed and the process to be followed to postpone a modification,
(c)specifying circumstances in which this section is not to apply.]