{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bus-services-act-2025/section-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bus-services-act-2025/section-32.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/24",
  "legislation_title": "Bus Services Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bus-services-act-2025",
  "path": "section/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Duty to provide information to Secretary of State",
  "text": "(1) An authority which is subject to a duty under section 30(6) or section 31(7) (duties to have regard to guidance) must, when requested to do so, provide to the Secretary of State—\n(a) details of how they have complied with the duty, and\n(b) any other information relating to stopping places provided by the authority and used by local services that is specified in the request.\n(2) The request may specify the form in which, and the period within which, the information is to be provided.\n(3) The Secretary of State may publish—\n(a) any information provided under this section, and\n(b) if it appears to the Secretary of State that the authority have not complied with their duty under section 30(6) or section 31(7), a statement to that effect.\n(4) In this section “local service” and “stopping place” have the same meanings as in the Transport Act 1985 (see sections 2 and 137 of that Act).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 32 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 41(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 26.1.2026 for specified purposes by S.I. 2026/46, reg. 2(n)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 5.8.2026 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2026/834, reg. 2(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/24/section/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:13.550562+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."
}