Regulation 6 Manner and form of provision of fare and ticket information
The information provided to the Secretary of State under regulation 5 must—
be provided electronically to the bus open data digital service internet site; and
be provided—
in the case of an operator that provides, or an applicant that is to provide, no more than forty relevant local services in the relevant area, by means of—
a link to the operator’s or applicant’s chosen website, being a link which must lead directly to the information in the form of a file in the United Kingdom profile of the Netex standard format for the relevant local service, or
a file in the United Kingdom profile of the Netex standard format for the relevant local service; or
in the case of any other operator or applicant or a local transport authority, by means of a link to the operator’s, applicant’s or, as the case may be, local transport authority’s chosen website, being a link which must lead directly to the information in the form of a file in the United Kingdom profile of the Netex standard format for the relevant local service.
Where information provided to the Secretary of State under regulation 5 is provided in accordance with paragraph (1)(b) by means of a link to its chosen website, the operator, applicant or, as the case may be, local transport authority must ensure that the link continues to work for as long as the obligation to provide the information under regulation 5 applies.
In this regulation “the United Kingdom profile of the Netex standard format” means the version of the Netex standard format used by the United Kingdom bus industry.
“Netex standard format” means the Network Timetable Exchange standard format, which is the European transport industry standard format for publishing multimodal fare and ticket information, amongst other types of informationf1.
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The Netex standard is owned by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN). Electronic copies of the United Kingdom profile of the Netex standard can be found free of charge at http://netex.uk/netex/. Electronic copies of the Netex standard can be found free of charge at http://netex-cen.eu/. Hard copies of the standards can be obtained free of charge from the Buses and Taxis Division, Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR.