{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bus-services-act-2025/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bus-services-act-2025/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/24",
  "legislation_title": "Bus Services Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bus-services-act-2025",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Specification of areas",
  "text": "In section 123H of the Transport Act 2000 (making and publication of scheme), after subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) Where a scheme specifies more than one area under subsection (2)(a), the areas specified need not be contiguous.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 41(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 26.1.2026 by S.I. 2026/46, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/24/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:45.773209+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}