Regulation 3 InterpretationI1

England and Wales

(1)

In these Regulations—

(a)

“the Act” means the Transport Act 2000;

(b)

“applicant” means a person making an application to which Part 5 of these Regulations applies;

(c)

“average commercial adult fare” means the average fare paid by adult non-concessionary passengers on any particular route or service of an operator;

(d)

“commercial ticket sales” means the number of tickets of any given ticket type sold by an operator to fare paying passengers on any route or service on which the concession is available;

(e)

“commercial ticket revenue” means the revenue received by an operator from its commercial ticket sales on any route or service on which the concession is available;

(f)

“concession” means any travel concession provided or to be provided in accordance with section 145A(1)^f1 of the Act;

(g)

“concessionary journeys” means the total number of eligible journeys^f2 made on eligible services^f3 by persons entitled to receive a concession;

(h)

“operator” means an operator of an eligible service on which a concession is claimed;

(i)

“payment day” means any day on which a reimbursement payment is due to be made;

(j)

“payment period” means the period to which a reimbursement payment relates;

(k)

“reimbursement arrangements” include the method of determination and manner of payment of reimbursement by travel concession authorities to operators in respect of concessions to be provided;

(l)

“reimbursement payment” means any payment falling to be made in accordance with section 149^f4 of the Act;

(m)

“standard method” means the method for calculating the amount of reimbursement payments due to operators of eligible services adopted by a travel concession authority in accordance with regulation 9(1).

(2)

References in these Regulations to the date on which a notice is given are, in relation to notices sent by post, references to the date on which the notice is, in accordance with regulation 20(3), deemed to be received at the address to which it is sent.

(3)

Any reference in these Regulations to estimates or calculations made by a travel concession authority in relation to reimbursement payments is a reference to estimates or calculations made by the best practical method available to the travel concession authority.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 3 in force at 12.5.2011, see reg. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1: Section 145A(1) of the Act was substituted by section 1 of the Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 (2007 c.13).
f2: The term “eligible journey” is defined in section 145A(2) of the Transport Act 2000.
f3: The term “eligible service” is defined in section 146 of the Transport Act 2000.
f4: Section 149(1) of the Act was substituted by section 3(1) and (2) of the Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007. Section 149(2)(a)(i) and (ii) were substituted by Section 3(1) and (3) of the Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007.