The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Variations of registered services

6.  In regulation 9 —

(a) for paragraph (2)(a) there shall be substituted —

“(a) a service may be varied in England and Wales in respect of any journey in a week which includes 24th December, Christmas Day, Good Friday or any bank holiday;”;

(b) after paragraph (2)(a) as amended by paragraph (a) above there shall be inserted —

“(aa) a service may be varied in Scotland in respect of any journey in a week which includes Christmas Day, 26th December, New Year’s Day, any bank holiday or a local holiday in respect of the area of any district or islands council through which the service operates;”;

(c) after paragraph (2) (f) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph —

“(g) a service may be varied by the provision of additional vehicles which —

(i) are operated over any part of the route of the service; and

(ii) are operated as closely as possible to the timings in the registered timetable.”; and

(d) after paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraph —

“(3) An operator shall send notice of his intention to vary a service pursuant to paragraph (2)(a) or (2)(aa) to every relevant authority and to the traffic commissioner with whom the service is registered no later than 21 days before the variation is to take effect.”.