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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-service-vehicles-accessible-information-regulations-2023/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348246872",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Service Vehicles (Accessible Information) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-service-vehicles-accessible-information-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n(a) “alert” means a sound intended to draw the attention of passengers to the information following it;\n(b) “community bus service” has the meaning given in section 22(1) of the Transport Act 1985;\n(c) “franchising scheme” has the meaning given in section 123A of the Transport Act 2000;\n(d) “local service” has the meaning given in section 2 of the Transport Act 1985;\n(e) “London local service” has the meaning given in section 179(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999;\n(f) “London local service agreement” has the meaning given in section 182(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999;\n(g) “London service permit” means the permit referred to in section 185(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999;\n(h) “operator” has the meaning given by section 81 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981;\n(i) “passengers” means persons travelling on the relevant local service;\n(j) “priority seat” has the meaning given by paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000;\n(k) “prospective passengers” means persons wishing to travel on the relevant local service;\n(l) “relevant information” means information required to be provided to passengers pursuant to regulations 7 to 11 of these Regulations;\n(m) “relevant local service” means a local service to which these Regulations apply in accordance with regulation 4.\n(n) “scheduled route” means—\n(i) in respect of local services other than London local services, a route registered with a traffic commissioner or specified in a franchising scheme;\n(ii) in respect of London local services, a route specified in a London service permit or in a London local service agreement;\n(o) “scheduled stopping place” means a place designated in advance by the operator of the service as a prospective stopping place;\n(p) “stopping place” means a place at which prospective passengers are taken up or passengers are set down;\n(q) “traffic commissioner” has the meaning given in section 4 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981; and\n(r) “wheelchair space” means a space in a vehicle designed to accommodate one or more wheelchairs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 38. Section 123A was inserted by section 4 of the Bus Services Act 2017 (c. 21)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1999 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1981 c. 14. Section 81(2) was repealed by the Transport Act 1985, section 139(3) and schedule 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/1970. There are amendments to schedule 2, but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348246872/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:43:37.552626+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."
}