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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/existing-facilities-in-quality-partnership-schemes-scotland-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2001/218",
  "legislation_title": "The Existing Facilities in Quality Partnership Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/existing-facilities-in-quality-partnership-schemes-scotland-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision for existing facilities to form part of a quality partnership scheme. Quality partnership schemes were introduced by Part II of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001.\nRegulation 3 provides that existing facilities may form part of a quality partnership scheme where they were provided for no more than 5 years before the scheme is proposed.\nRegulation 4 provides that existing facilities which were provided for more than 5 years but less than 10 years before the date the scheme is proposed may form part of a quality partnership scheme, but only where the consent of all bus operators using those facilities has been obtained.\nRegulation 5 provides that a local transport authority must, in carrying out the consultation process, specify the date on which the existing facilities were provided.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/218/note",
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  },
  "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."
}