The Bus Services Improvement Partnerships and Local Services Franchises (Provision of Information) (Scotland) Regulations 2023

Relevant information: bus services improvement partnerships

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 3K of the 2001 Act (provision of information: bus services improvement partnerships), information is relevant information if it is about—

(a) how and when passengers use relevant local services,

(b) how and when relevant local services are likely to be used by passengers once the partnership plan or scheme has been made or, as the case may be, varied,

(c) the structure of fares for journeys on relevant local services,

(d) the types of—

(i) tickets used by passengers,

(ii) tickets used by particular types of passengers,

on relevant local services,

(e) the time taken for journeys, and parts of journeys, on relevant local services including information about adherence to timetables at all times or at certain times of the day,

(f) the total distance covered by vehicles used by the operator in operating relevant local services,

(g) the total registered distance of relevant local services,

(h) the vehicles used by the operator in operating relevant local services, including information about the age of those vehicles, emissions and types of fuel or power,

(i) the result of any activities undertaken with a view to promoting increased passenger use of relevant local services,

(j) whether the operator of relevant local services is a subsidiary and, if the operator is a subsidiary, the name of the holding company,

(k) the particulars of the registration of relevant local services under section 6 of the Transport Act 1985(1).

(2) Information of a description specified in paragraph (1) is relevant information for the purposes of section 3K of the 2001 Act only if it is information that—

(a) the operator possesses or controls, and

(b) relates to periods that fall not more than five years before the date on which the local transport authority requires the operator to provide it.

(3) In this regulation—

“holding company” has the meaning given by section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006(2),

“registered distance” has the meaning given by regulation 1(3) of the Bus Services Improvement Partnerships (Objections) (Scotland) Regulations 2024(3),

“relevant local services” means—

(a)

where the local transport authority is exercising a function referred to in section 3K(1)(a) of the 2001 Act (preparing and making a partnership plan or scheme), local services operated by the operator in the local transport authority’s area, or any part of it,

(b)

where the local transport authority is exercising a function referred to in section 3K(1)(b) of the 2001 Act (reviewing the effectiveness of a partnership plan or scheme), local services operated by the operator in the area covered by the partnership plan or, as the case may be, partnership scheme,

(c)

where the local transport authority is exercising a function referred to in section 3K(1)(c) of the 2001 Act (determining whether and how to vary, or revoke, a partnership plan or scheme)—

(i)

the area covered by the partnership plan or, as the case may be, partnership scheme,

(ii)

the area that would be covered by the partnership plan or, as the case may be, partnership scheme if it was varied as proposed,

“subsidiary” has the meaning given by section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006.

(1)

1985 c. 67.

(2)

2006 c. 46.

(3)

S.S.I. 2024/72.