These Regulations may be cited as the Bus Services Improvement Partnerships (Objections) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 and come into force on 1 April 2024.

In these Regulations—

• “the 1985 Act” means the Transport Act 19852,

• “the 2001 Act” means the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001,

• “electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 20003,

• “postal packet” and “postal services” have the meanings given by section 27(1) and (2) of the Postal Services Act 20114,

• “public holiday” means a day which is a bank holiday in Scotland under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 19715,

• “qualifying local service” has the meaning given by regulation 2,

• “working day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday.

In these regulations, “registered distance” means, in relation to a qualifying local service, the distance, in miles or kilometres, which an operator is required to operate in any week which does not include a public holiday in accordance with the particulars of the service registered under section 6 of the 1985 Act6 and schedule 1 of the Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Scotland) Regulations 20017.

Where a timetable has not been registered with the particulars of a service because the service interval is 10 minutes or less, paragraph (3) is to be construed as if a timetable indicating a service interval of 10 mins were registered as a particular of the service.