{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bus-services-wales-act-2026/section-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bus-services-wales-act-2026/section-44.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2026/2",
  "legislation_title": "Bus Services (Wales) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bus-services-wales-act-2026",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "General interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“the 1981 Act” (“Deddf 1981”) means the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 (c. 14);\n“the 1985 Act” (“Deddf 1985”) means the Transport Act 1985 (c. 67);\n“community bus permit” (“trwydded bysiau cymunedol”) has the meaning given in section 22 of the 1985 Act;\n“community bus service” (“gwasanaeth bysiau cymunedol”) has the meaning given in section 22 of the 1985 Act;\n“functions” (“swyddogaethau”) includes powers and duties;\n“local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means a county or county borough council in Wales;\n“modify” (“addasu”) includes amend, repeal or revoke;\n“notice” (“hysbysiad”) means notice in writing;\n“Part 3 of Schedule 1 service” (“gwasanaeth Rhan 3 o Atodlen 1”) means a service for the carriage of passengers by road in which every vehicle used is so used in circumstances in which the conditions set out in Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the 1981 Act are met;\n“PSV operator’s licence” (“trwydded gweithredwr cerbydau gwasanaeth cyhoeddus”) has the same meaning as in the 1981 Act;\n“public passenger transport services” (“gwasanaethau trafnidiaeth gyhoeddus i deithwyr”) has the meaning given in section 7 of the Transport (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 5);\n“regulations” (“rheoliadau”) means regulations made by the Welsh Ministers;\n“section 19 service” (“gwasanaethau adran 19”) means a service for the carriage of passengers by road in which every vehicle used is so used under a permit under section 19 of the 1985 Act;\n“specified” (“penodedig” and “a bennir”) (unless the context requires otherwise) means specified in regulations;\n“traffic commissioner” (“comisiynydd traffig”) means a traffic commissioner for England and Wales appointed under section 4 of the 1981 Act;\nthe “Wales Transport Strategy” (“Strategaeth Drafnidiaeth Cymru”) means the Wales Transport Strategy published under section 2 of the Transport (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 5).\n(2) References in this Act to an operator, in relation to a service, are to the person, or each of the persons, providing the service; and related expressions (including references to a person having operated a service) are to be construed accordingly.\n(3) Regulations may make provision about circumstances in which a person of a specified description is to be treated for the purposes of subsection (2) as providing or not providing a service",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 44 in force at 3.2.2026, see s. 48(1)(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2026/2/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:40.236412+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."
}