Section 11 Power to make supplementary provision about local bus service contractsI1
England and Wales
Regulations may make provision about terms that must be included in a local bus service contract.
That provision may relate to any of the following matters (among others)—
punctuality, reliability and safety;
frequency and timing;
routes and areas of operation;
arrangements for determining when passengers are taken up or set down;
embarkation points and disembarkation points;
booking journeys;
record keeping;
vehicles (including facilities to be made available and information to be displayed on vehicles), vehicle emissions, and types of fuel or power;
connections to public passenger transport services and to section 19 services;
passenger journeys involving travel on more than one local bus service, or travel on both a local bus service and public passenger transport services or section 19 services;
ticketing, fares, and how entitlement to travel may be evidenced;
education and training;
interaction with customers, including in connection with customer feedback, and procedures for dealing with complaints and incidents;
compliance with statutory requirements;
incentives for improving the quality of a service;
facilities and amenities to be made available to any person;
payments to any person.
Regulations under subsection (1) may—
set out a standard form for terms that must be included in a local bus service contract;
prescribe circumstances in which that standard form may or must be used in a local bus service contract.
Annotations
Commencement
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S. 11 in force at 3.2.2026, see s. 48(1)(c)