The Public Service Vehicles (Open Data) (England) Regulations 2020

Changes to route, operator, stopping place and timetable information: time when information about changes must be provided

8.—(1) This regulation applies to all services for which the information referred to in regulation 3(2) to (j) must be provided.

(2) Where the operator of a registered relevant local service makes an application to a traffic commissioner for the variation or cancellation of the registration of the service, the information referred to in regulation 3(2)(k) or (l) must be provided to the Secretary of State by the date on which the application is made to the traffic commissioner.

(3) In a case where—

(a) the information falling within regulation 3(2)(k) does not require an application to be made to a traffic commissioner for the variation or cancellation of the registration of the service; or

(b) a registered relevant local service is to be varied without variation of the registration in any of the cases specified in regulation 9(2) of the 1986 Regulations(1),

the operator of a registered relevant local service must provide the information to the Secretary of State before the change takes effect.

(4) A local transport authority that is also a franchising authority must provide the information referred to in—

(a) regulation 3(2)(k) at least 28 days before the date on which the change is to take effect;

(b) regulation 3(2)(l) at least 28 days before the date on which the termination is to take effect except where it is not reasonably practicable to give such notice before the service is terminated, in which case the information must be provided as soon as is reasonably practicable.

(5) Where a traffic commissioner accepts an application for the cancellation of the registration of a relevant local service, the operator must, immediately before the cancellation is to take effect—

(a) remove from its chosen website the file in TransXChange standard format relating to that service; or

(b) as the case may be, remove from the bus open data digital service internet site the file in TransXChange standard format relating to that service.

(6) Where, as a result of a variation or revocation of a franchising scheme(2), a relevant local service is cancelled, a local transport authority that is also a franchising authority must immediately before the cancellation is to take effect remove from its chosen website the file in TransXChange standard format relating to that service.

(1)

Relevant amending S.I.s are 1988/1879, 1989/1064, 1994/3271, 2002/182, 2004/10 and 2010/1172.

(2)

“Franchising scheme” is to be construed in accordance with section 123A(3) of the Transport Act 2000.