{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-transport-companies-permitted-maximum-and-required-minimum-numbers-of-directors-order-1985/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1985/1901",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Transport Companies (Permitted Maximum and Required Minimum Numbers of Directors) Order 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-transport-companies-permitted-maximum-and-required-minimum-numbers-of-directors-order-1985",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order prescribes seven as the permitted maximum number of persons who are not full-time employees of a public transport company who may be directors of such a company. It also prescribes three as the required minimum number of persons who are full-time employees of the company, in positions of responsibility for the management of the company's business or any part of that business, who are to be directors of the company where the company owns 50 or more buses. In cases where the company owns less than 50 buses, the required minimum is two.\nThe meaning of the expression “public transport company” is given in section 72(1) of the Transport Act 1985.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/1901/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:58:30.472354+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."
}