Regulation 3 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

(a)

“alert” means a sound intended to draw the attention of passengers to the information following it;

(b)

“community bus service” has the meaning given in section 22(1) of the Transport Act 1985^f1;

(c)

“franchising scheme” has the meaning given in section 123A of the Transport Act 2000^f2;

(d)

“local service” has the meaning given in section 2 of the Transport Act 1985;

(e)

“London local service” has the meaning given in section 179(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999^f3;

(f)

“London local service agreement” has the meaning given in section 182(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999;

(g)

“London service permit” means the permit referred to in section 185(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999;

(h)

“operator” has the meaning given by section 81 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981^f4;

(i)

“passengers” means persons travelling on the relevant local service;

(j)

“priority seat” has the meaning given by paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000^f5;

(k)

“prospective passengers” means persons wishing to travel on the relevant local service;

(l)

“relevant information” means information required to be provided to passengers pursuant to regulations 7 to 11 of these Regulations;

(m)

“relevant local service” means a local service to which these Regulations apply in accordance with regulation 4.

(n)

“scheduled route” means—

(i)

in respect of local services other than London local services, a route registered with a traffic commissioner or specified in a franchising scheme;

(ii)

in respect of London local services, a route specified in a London service permit or in a London local service agreement;

(o)

“scheduled stopping place” means a place designated in advance by the operator of the service as a prospective stopping place;

(p)

“stopping place” means a place at which prospective passengers are taken up or passengers are set down;

(q)

“traffic commissioner” has the meaning given in section 4 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981^f6; and

(r)

“wheelchair space” means a space in a vehicle designed to accommodate one or more wheelchairs.

Annotations

f1: 1985 c. 67. Section 22(1) was amended by the Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), section 59(1), S.I. 2013/1644 and S.I. 2019/572.
f2: 2000 c. 38. Section 123A was inserted by section 4 of the Bus Services Act 2017 (c. 21).
f3: 1999 c. 29.
f4: 1981 c. 14. Section 81(2) was repealed by the Transport Act 1985, section 139(3) and schedule 8.
f5: S.I. 2000/1970. There are amendments to schedule 2, but none is relevant.
f6: Section 4 was amended by the Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), section 2, and the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7), schedule 1, paragraph 17.