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Section 11 Power to make supplementary provision about local bus service contractsI1

England and Wales

(1)

Regulations may make provision about terms that must be included in a local bus service contract.

(2)

That provision may relate to any of the following matters (among others)—

(a)

punctuality, reliability and safety;

(b)

frequency and timing;

(c)

routes and areas of operation;

(d)

arrangements for determining when passengers are taken up or set down;

(e)

embarkation points and disembarkation points;

(f)

booking journeys;

(g)

record keeping;

(h)

vehicles (including facilities to be made available and information to be displayed on vehicles), vehicle emissions, and types of fuel or power;

(i)

connections to public passenger transport services and to section 19 services;

(j)

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;

(k)

ticketing, fares, and how entitlement to travel may be evidenced;

(l)

education and training;

(m)

interaction with customers, including in connection with customer feedback, and procedures for dealing with complaints and incidents;

(n)

compliance with statutory requirements;

(o)

incentives for improving the quality of a service;

(p)

facilities and amenities to be made available to any person;

(q)

payments to any person.

(3)

Regulations under subsection (1) may—

(a)

set out a standard form for terms that must be included in a local bus service contract;

(b)

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)