The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2004

Amendment of interpretation provisions

3.—(1) Regulation 2 (interpretation) is amended as provided in this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (1), after the definition of “bank holiday”, there is inserted—

““bus substitution service” has the meaning given by section 45(2)(b) of the Railways Act 1993(1);

“fixed stopping place” means a stopping place at a fixed location;”.

(3) In the Table in paragraph (2), item 2 is omitted.

(4) After paragraph (2), there is inserted—

“(2A) In these Regulations—

(a) a reference to a flexible service is a reference to a service—

(i) which serves one or more local communities or neighbourhoods within a specific geographical area,

(ii) which, while it may have fixed sections of route, is in the entirety of its operation so flexible that it is not practicable to identify in advance all the roads to be traversed at any given time,

(iii) which is provided primarily for the purpose of carrying passengers who have booked in advance of the journey and whose collective requirements determine the route of each journey notwithstanding that other persons may also be travelling,

(iv) all the seats of which are available for use by members of the general public, and

(v) which is provided in consideration of the payment of individual passenger fares which are not subject to variation according to the number of passengers carried on the journey;

(b) a reference to a standard service is a reference to any other service.”

(1)

1993 c. 43. Section 45(2)(b) was amended by the Transport Act 2000 (c. 38), sections 215(1) and 252, and by Schedule 16, paragraphs 8 and 29, and Schedule 27, paragraphs 17 and 27, to that Act.