Paragraph 22 I1

Section 111 (unregistered and unreliable local services: requirement to repay twenty per cent. of bus fuel duty grants) is amended as follows (until it ceases to have effect as a result of section 154(6)).

For subsection (1) substitute—

“(1)

Where the traffic commissioner for any traffic area is satisfied that the operator of a local service has, without reasonable excuse—

(a)

failed to operate a local service registered under section 6 of this Act;

(b)

operated a local service in contravention of that section or section 118(4) or 129(1)(b) of the Transport Act 2000; or

(c)

failed to comply with section 138 or 140(3) of that Act;

he may make a determination to that effect.”