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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-contracts-schemes-qcs-boards-england-regulations-2009/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3243",
  "legislation_title": "The Quality Contracts Schemes (QCS Boards) (England) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-contracts-schemes-qcs-boards-england-regulations-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Public Passenger Transport, England\nMade 7th December 2009\nLaid before Parliament 14th December 2009\nComing into force 11th January 2010\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 126A(5) and (10), 126B(5) and (6), 126E(1) to (3), 133 and 160(1) of the Transport Act 2000.\nThe Secretary of State has consulted the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council in accordance with paragraph 24(1) of Schedule 7 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 38. Sections 126A, 126B and 126E of the Transport Act 2000 were inserted by sections 22, 23 and 25 respectively of the Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26). Section 133 was amended by section 41 of that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2007 c. 15. The effect of paragraph 24(1) of Schedule 7 to this Act is that the power of the Secretary of State to make procedural rules for any listed tribunal can be exercised only after consultation with the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council. The traffic commissioners for areas in England and Wales are listed tribunals for the purposes of paragraph 24(1) by virtue of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council (Listed Tribunals) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2951). The provisions relating to QCS boards in the Transport Act 2000 impose procedural requirements on the senior traffic commissioner, and on traffic commissioners designated to chair a QCS board."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3243/introduction",
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  "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."
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