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(1)Subject to sections 90 and 91 of this Act, an authority responsible for expenditure on public passenger transport services may not enter into an agreement providing for service subsidies under which a local service is to be provided except by accepting a tender invited in pursuance of this section.
(2)Where any such authority propose to secure the provision of any local service by entering into any such agreement, the authority shall invite tenders for the provision of that service for such period and on such basis as may be specified in the invitation to tender.
[F1(3)An invitation to tender under this section may not include conditions with respect to the terms of employment of persons to be employed in providing any service to which the invitation to tender relates.]
(4)Subject to subsection (5) below, any such invitation—
(a)must be issued generally, in such manner as the authority issuing the invitation consider appropriate for bringing it to the attention of persons who may be interested; and
(b)must also be issued individually to all persons who have given to that authority a written notice indicating that they wish to receive invitations to tender for the provision of local services for that authority’s area or (as the case may be) for the provision of such services of any description to which the invitation relates.
(5)Any such notice shall specify the address to which any such invitation is to be directed, and it shall be sufficient for the purposes of subsection (4)(b) above if the authority send the invitation to the person giving any such notice at the address so specified.
(6)An authority issuing an invitation to tender under this section shall not accept any tender submitted by a person who is not the holder of either—
(a)a PSV operator’s licence, not being—
F2(i). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(ii)a licence to which any condition is attached under section 26 of this Act prohibiting the holder from using vehicles under the licence to provide local services of all descriptions or (as the case may be) of any description to which the invitation relates; or
(b)a permit under section 22 of this Act.
[F3(7)An authority issuing an invitation to tender under this section shall, in determining whether to accept a tender submitted in response to the invitation or which (if any) of several such tenders to accept, have regard in particular to—
(a)a combination of economy, efficiency and effectiveness;
(b)the implementation of the policies set out in the appropriate bus strategy; and
(c)the reduction or limitation of traffic congestion, noise or air pollution.
F3(8)In subsection (7)(b) above “the appropriate bus strategy” means—
(a)in the case of a local transport authority (within the meaning of section 108(4) of the Transport Act 2000), their bus strategy;
(b)in the case of a district council which is not such an authority, the bus strategy of the council for the county in which the district is situated; and
(c)in the case of a Passenger Transport Executive for a passenger transport area, the bus strategy made jointly by the Passenger Transport Authority for the area and the councils for the metropolitan districts comprised in the area.]
Extent Information
E1This version of this provision extends to England Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only
Textual Amendments
F1S. 89(3) repealed (E.W.) (1.2.2001 for E. and otherwiseprosp.) by 2000 c. 38, ss. 274, 275, Sch. 31 Pt. II; S.I. 2001/57, art. 3(2), Sch. 3 Pt. I (with saving in Sch. 3 Pt. II (as amended by S.I. 2001/115, art. 3))
F2S. 89(6)(a)(i) repealed (8.11.1995) by 1995 c. 44, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. V Group 2
F3S. 89(7)(8) substituted (E.W.) (1.2.2001 for E. and otherwiseprosp.) by 2000 c. 38, ss. 152(2), 275; S.I. 2001/57, art. 3(2), Sch. 3 Pt. I (with saving in Sch. 3 Pt. II (as amended by S.I. 2001/115, art. 3))
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2S. 89(1) excluded (28.7.1998) by 1998 c. iii, s. 1, Sch. s. 51(2) of Order
(1)Subject to sections 90 and 91 of this Act, an authority responsible for expenditure on public passenger transport services may not enter into an agreement providing for service subsidies under which a local service is to be provided except by accepting a tender invited in pursuance of this section.
(2)Where any such authority propose to secure the provision of any local service by entering into any such agreement, the authority shall invite tenders for the provision of that service for such period and on such basis as may be specified in the invitation to tender.
(3)An invitation to tender under this section may not include conditions with respect to the terms of employment of persons to be employed in providing any service to which the invitation to tender relates.
(4)Subject to subsection (5) below, any such invitation—
(a)must be issued generally, in such manner as the authority issuing the invitation consider appropriate for bringing it to the attention of persons who may be interested; and
(b)must also be issued individually to all persons who have given to that authority a written notice indicating that they wish to receive invitations to tender for the provision of local services for that authority’s area or (as the case may be) for the provision of such services of any description to which the invitation relates.
(5)Any such notice shall specify the address to which any such invitation is to be directed, and it shall be sufficient for the purposes of subsection (4)(b) above if the authority send the invitation to the person giving any such notice at the address so specified.
(6)An authority issuing an invitation to tender under this section shall not accept any tender submitted by a person who is not the holder of either—
(a)a PSV operator’s licence, not being—
F5(i). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(ii)a licence to which any condition is attached under section 26 of this Act prohibiting the holder from using vehicles under the licence to provide local services of all descriptions or (as the case may be) of any description to which the invitation relates; or
(b)a permit under section 22 of this Act.
(7)The authority issuing any invitation to tender under this section [F6for the provision of services other than those mentioned in subsection (9) below] shall determine—
(a)whether to accept a tender submitted in response to the invitation; or
(b)which (if any) of several such tenders to accept;
solely by reference to what in their view is the most effective and economic application of the funds at their disposal for the payment of service subsidies.
(8)Subsection (7) above shall not be taken as requiring the authority to limit their consideration, in the case of any such invitation to tender, to the application of those funds for the purpose of securing the provision of the particular service to which that invitation to tender relates; and accordingly the authority may (in particular) take into account in making, in relation to any such invitation to tender, any determination to which that subsection applies—
(a)costs and benefits in relation to any proposed expenditure by that or any other authority for the purpose of securing the provision of any other public passenger transport service;
(b)costs and benefits in relation to any proposed expenditure on transport for the purposes of or in connection with the exercise and performance by that or any other authority of any functions of a description mentioned in section 88(2)(b) of this Act; and
(c)any matter appearing to the authority to be relevant to determining whether the particular service to which that invitation to tender relates, and any other relevant service, would be effectively provided by any person who has submitted a tender in response to that invitation to tender.
For the purposes of paragraph (c) above, a service other than the particular service there mentioned is relevant if the authority propose to incur expenditure for the purpose of securing its provision and any tender or proposal for the provision of that service by any such person is also under consideration by the authority.
[F7(9)An authority issuing an invitation to tender under this section for the provision of any service for the carriage of passengers by road which requires, for the purposes of Part IV of this Act, a PSV operator’s licence, shall, in determining whether to accept a tender submitted in response to the invitation or which (if any) of several such tenders to accept, have regard in particular to—
(a)a combination of economy, efficiency and effectiveness;
(b)the implementation of—
(i)their local transport strategy; and
(ii)the general policies formulated by them under section 63(2)(b) of this Act or section 9A(1) of the Transport Act 1968 (c.73), as the case may be; and
(c)the reduction or limitation of traffic congestion, noise or air pollution.
(10)In subsection (9)(b)(i) above, “local transport strategy” has the meaning given by section 82(1) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 2).]]
Extent Information
E2This version of this provision extends to Scotland only; a separate version has been created for England and Wales only
Textual Amendments
F4S. 89 repealed (S.) (1.4.2003) by Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 (asp 1), ss. 60(3)(c), 62(2); S.S.I. 2003/134, art. 2(1), Sch.
F5S. 89(6)(a)(i) repealed (8.11.1995) by 1995 c. 44, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. V Group 2
F6Words in s. 89(7) inserted (S.) (1.4.2001) by 2001 asp 2, s. 36(2)(a) (with s. 66); S.S.I. 2001/132, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. I (with saving in art. 3)
F7S. 89(9)(10) inserted (S.) (1.4.2001) by 2001 asp 2, s. 36(2)(b) (with s. 66); S.S.I. 2001/132, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. I (with saving in art. 3)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C3S. 89(1) excluded (28.7.1998) by 1998 c. iii, s. 1, Sch. s. 51(2) of Order
S. 89(1) excluded (24.7.2001) by S.I. 2001/3627, art. 50
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