{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1985/section-6K",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1985/section-6K.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/67",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1985",
  "path": "section/6K",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6K",
  "heading": "Application for registration where service standard has effect",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where—\n(a) a bus services improvement partnership scheme made under section 3B of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 is in operation,\n(b) a service standard imposed under section 3B(3)(b) of that Act has effect,\n(c) an application for registration, or for variation of registration, is made under section 6 of this Act in respect of a local service to which that service standard would apply if the application were granted, and\n(d) the application is one which would, but for this section, fall to be accepted.\n(2) A traffic commissioner must refuse the application if—\n(a) the service standard is an operational service standard, and\n(b) the traffic commissioner considers that the person who would be the operator of—\n(i) the service proposed to be provided, or\n(ii) the service as proposed to be varied,\nis unlikely to be able to comply with the service standard as regards that service.\n(3) In this section, “operational service standard” is to be construed in accordance with section 3C(1)(b) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 6K-6N inserted (S.) (4.12.2023 for specified purposes) by Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 17), ss. 37(3), 130(2) (with s. 126); S.S.I. 2023/250, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/67/section/6K",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:49.449968+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."
}