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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-smart-ticketing-advisory-board-scotland-regulations-2023/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2023/80",
  "legislation_title": "The National Smart Ticketing Advisory Board (Scotland) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-smart-ticketing-advisory-board-scotland-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Work programme",
  "text": "(1) The Board must prepare and submit for the Scottish Ministers’ approval a work programme which—\n(a) sets out how it intends to perform its functions under sections 27C(2) and (3) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 for the relevant period, and\n(b) details such other matters relating to the Board’s functions as the Board considers appropriate.\n(2) The first work programme prepared by the Board must—\n(a) relate to any remainder of the current financial year in addition to the relevant period, and\n(b) be submitted to the Scottish Ministers as soon as reasonably practicable, and not later than six months after the first meeting of the Board.\n(3) All work programmes subsequent to the first must be submitted to the Scottish Ministers not later than three months before the expiry of the period to which the current programme relates.\n(4) The Scottish Ministers may—\n(a) approve a programme without modification,\n(b) approve a programme with modifications agreed with the Board, or\n(c) reject a programme.\n(5) If the Scottish Ministers reject a programme, the Board must submit a revised programme to the Scottish Ministers within such period as the Scottish Ministers require.\n(6) Where the Scottish Ministers approve a programme under sub-paragraph (4)(a) or (b), the Board must publish the approved programme in such manner as it considers appropriate.\n(7) The Board—\n(a) may revise a programme from time to time,\n(b) must submit any revised programme to the Scottish Ministers for approval.\n(8) Paragraphs (4) to (6) apply to a revised programme submitted under paragraph (5) or (7)(b) as they apply to a programme submitted under paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(9) In this regulation, “relevant period” means—\n(a) at least the next full financial year, and\n(b) not more than the next three full financial years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2023/80/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:46:12.364868+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."
}