{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-contracts-schemes-tendering-requirements-england-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3244",
  "legislation_title": "The Quality Contracts Schemes (Tendering Requirements) (England) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-contracts-schemes-tendering-requirements-england-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Transport Act 2000;\n“the 1985 Act” means the Transport Act 1985;\n“authority” means a local transport authority in England or, where that authority is an Integrated Transport Authority, it means the Passenger Transport Executive for the relevant integrated transport area; and\n“scheme” means a quality contracts scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "By virtue of section 162(1) of the Transport Act 2000, the term “local transport authority” has the meaning given in section 108(4) of that Act. Section 108(4)(c) was substituted by the Local Transport Act 2008, section 77(5) and Schedule 4, Part 3, paragraphs 41 and 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 9 of the Transport Act 1968 (c. 73) provides for the establishment of integrated transport areas, Integrated Transport Authorities and Passenger Transport Executives. This section was amended by the Transport Act 1985, sections 57(1) and (6), 58(1) and (2), and section 139(3) and Schedule 3, paragraph 3 and Schedule 8. It was also amended by the Local Transport Act 2008, sections 77(5), 98(4) and 131; Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraphs 1 and 2, and Schedule 7, Part 4. There are other amendments but none is relevant. Section 162(4) of the Transport Act 2000 provides that where certain references in that Act to an authority are to an Integrated Transport Authority, they are to be construed as references to the Passenger Transport Executive for the integrated transport area. This provision was amended by the Local Transport Act 2008, sections 15(6), 26(9), 27(2), 40(2), 77(5) and 131; Schedule 4, Part 3, paragraphs 41 and 46, and Schedule 7, Part 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "By virtue of section 162(1) of the Transport Act 2000, the term “quality contracts scheme” is to be construed in accordance with section 124(3) of that Act. This definition was amended by section 19(1) and (4) of the Local Transport Act 2008."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3244/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:59:02.896597+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."
}