Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 2)

Part 2 S Bus services

[F1 CHAPTER 1] S [F1 Bus services improvement partnerships]

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.

[F1 Partnership plans and schemes] S

[F1 3A Bus services improvement partnership plans S

(1) A local transport authority may, if they consider it appropriate to do so, make a bus services improvement partnership plan (a “partnership plan”) in relation to the whole or part of their area.

(2) A partnership plan is a plan that—

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

(b) sets out for the area—

(i) an analysis of the local services,

(ii) policies relating to the local services,

(iii) objectives to be met within the period as regards the quality and effectiveness of the local services provided,

(c) describes how the partnership scheme (or schemes) to be made at the same time as the partnership plan (see section 3B) is intended to assist in implementing the policies and meeting the objectives, and

(d) describes the intended effect of any such scheme (or schemes) on areas which are adjacent to the plan's area.

(3) A partnership plan must also—

(a) describe the proposals for obtaining the views of users of local services in the area about how well the plan and the partnership scheme (or schemes) are working, and

(b) specify how the plan is to be reviewed and the dates by which reviews are to be completed.

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

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Ss. 3A-3L: functions exercisable concurrently (5.6.2024) by The Transport Partnerships (Transfer of Functions) (Scotland) Order 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/161), arts. 1(1), 2-5