{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-2000/schedule-9A/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-2000/schedule-9A/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/38",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/9A/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Response to consultation",
  "text": "(1) A franchising authority or authorities that conduct a consultation under paragraph 5 must publish a report setting out—\n(a) the authority’s or authorities’ response to the consultation;\n(b) the authority’s or authorities’ decision on whether to vary the franchising scheme.\n(2) If the decision is to vary the franchising scheme, the report must be published at the same time as the notice of the decision is published under section 123M(2)(a).\n(3) The authority or authorities must give notice of the report to a traffic commissioner.\n(4) If the authority or authorities decide to vary the franchising scheme, the report must set out how, in conducting the procurement process for the provision of local services under the scheme as varied, the authority or authorities will facilitate the involvement of small and medium-sized operators in the provision of local services.\n(5) If a franchising authority are a mayoral combined authority, the function of deciding whether to vary the franchising scheme is a function of the combined authority exercisable only by the mayor acting on behalf of the combined authority (including in a case where the decision is to vary a scheme jointly with one or more other franchising authorities).\n(6) If a franchising authority are a mayoral CCA, the function of deciding whether to vary the franchising scheme is a function of the combined county authority exercisable only by the mayor acting on behalf of the combined county authority (including in a case where the decision is to vary a scheme jointly with one or more other franchising authorities).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 9A inserted (26.1.2026) by Bus Services Act 2025 (c. 24), s. 41(5), Sch. (with s. 3(4)); S.I. 2026/46, reg. 2(o) (with reg. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/38/schedule/9A/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:32.082416+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."
}