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(1)The Secretary of State may by regulations make such transitional provision as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in connection with—
(a)the making of franchising schemes,
(b)the application of section 123J in relation to an area (effect of local service contracts: sections 6 to 9 of the Transport Act 1985 and provision of services),
(c)the variation of franchising schemes, and
(d)the revocation of franchising schemes.
(2)The regulations may in particular provide that in prescribed circumstances—
(a)any provision of sections 6 to 9 of the Transport Act 1985 (registration of local services), or of sections 89 to 92 of that Act (obligation to invite tenders etc), which would otherwise have effect is not to have effect or is to have effect with such modifications as may be prescribed, or
(b)any such provision which would not otherwise have effect is to have effect or is to have effect with such modifications as may be prescribed,
in relation to the whole or any part of the area to which the scheme relates.
(3)Regulations made by virtue of subsection (2) may in particular provide for the period in section 6(8)(a) of the Transport Act 1985 to be, for applications to vary or cancel the registration of services that have one or more stopping places in the area to which a franchising scheme relates, the period specified in a notice issued by the authority or authorities that made the franchising scheme.
(4)The regulations may impose requirements in relation to notices issued as mentioned in subsection (3) that include (but are not limited to) requirements—
(a)as to the time when the notice may be issued,
(b)as to the publication of the notice,
(c)as to sending a copy of the notice to a traffic commissioner, and
(d)as to the period, not exceeding 112 days, that may be specified in the notice.
(5)Regulations made by virtue of subsection (2) may in particular provide for cases where local services continue to be provided in an area under local service contracts after a franchising scheme—
(a)is revoked, or
(b)is varied so as no longer to relate to that area.
(6)The regulations may—
(a)prohibit the registration of a service, or a variation of the registration of a service, under section 6 of the Transport Act 1985 so far as the service, or the service as varied, would be provided in that area, except in a case where the service, or the service as varied, would be a service that, under the scheme as it had effect before it was revoked or varied, could have been provided in that area under a local service contract, and
(b)require a traffic commissioner to register a service on an application by a person who, immediately before the scheme was revoked or varied, provided the same service under a service permit.
(7)Any regulations made by virtue of subsection (1)(a) are not to have effect in the case of any franchising scheme as respects any time before the making of the scheme.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 123A-123X and cross-heading inserted (27.4.2017 for specified purposes) by Bus Services Act 2017 (c. 21), ss. 4, 26(3)
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