C2C3C4C5C6C7C8C10C13C14C15C16C17C18C19C21Part II Local transport

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Pt. 2: power to amend conferred (17.10.2007 for specified purposes, 1.4.2008 in so far as not already in force) by Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 (c. 13), ss. 8(1), 9(1)(2), 10(1)(2), 15(1); S.I. 2007/2799, arts. 2, 3 (with art. 4)

C5

Pt. 2: delegation of functions (1.4.2016) by The Tees Valley Combined Authority Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/449), arts. 1(a), 6(b)

C6

Pt. 2 functions made exercisable (9.2.2017) by The West of England Combined Authority Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/126), arts. 1(3), 8

C7

Pt. 2 functions made exercisable (9.2.2017) by The West of England Combined Authority Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/126), arts. 1(3), 8(1)

Bus services: ticketing schemes

I1C1C9C20C21135 Joint and through ticketing schemes.

C111

A local transport authority, or two or more such authorities acting jointly, may make a ticketing scheme covering the whole or any part of their area, or combined area, if they consider that the proposed scheme—

a

would be in the interests of the public, and

F1b

would contribute to the implementation of their local transport policies

F2(but this is subject to subsection (1A)).

F31A

A local transport authority whose area is in England may exercise the power to make a ticketing scheme only if—

a

they are acting jointly with one or more other local transport authorities, and

b

at least one of those other local transport authorities is an authority whose area is in Wales.

2

A ticketing scheme may not be made unless the authority or authorities have complied with the notice and consultation requirements imposed by section 136.

3

A ticketing scheme is a scheme under which operators of local services of a class specified in it are required to make and implement arrangements under which persons may purchase, in a single transaction, a ticket (or tickets) of any of the descriptions which may be covered by a ticketing scheme and to which the scheme applies.

4

The descriptions of tickets which may be covered by a ticketing scheme are—

a

tickets entitling the holder to make more than one journey on particular local services or on local services of a class specified in the scheme (whether or not operated by the same person),

b

tickets entitling the holder to make a particular journey on two or more local services (whether or not operated by the same person),

c

where a particular journey could be made on local services provided by any of two or more operators, tickets entitling the holder to make the journey on whichever service the holder chooses, and

d

tickets entitling the holder to make a journey, or more than one journey, involving both travel on one or more local services and travel by one or more connecting rail or tram services.

5

A connecting rail or tram service, in relation to a ticketing scheme, is a service for the carriage of passengers by railway or by tramway (or by both) which runs between—

a

a station or stopping place at or in the vicinity of which local services stop and which serves any part of the area to which the ticketing scheme relates, and

b

any other place.

6

Different arrangements may be specified in a ticketing scheme for different cases.

C127

In carrying out their functions under this Part in relation to ticketing schemes, local transport authorities must co-operate with one another.

C128

In considering whether to make a ticketing scheme, a local transport authority must have regard to the desirability, in appropriate cases, of making a scheme jointly with another authority.