{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-2000/section-138D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-2000/section-138D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/38",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-2000",
  "path": "section/138D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "138D",
  "heading": "Facilities and measures",
  "text": "(1) The facilities which may be specified in an enhanced partnership scheme—\n(a) must be facilities provided at specific locations along routes served, or proposed to be served, by local services within the area to which the scheme relates, or facilities which are ancillary to such facilities, but\n(b) may not be facilities which are required to be provided as a result of section 139 or 140.\n(2) The measures which may be specified in an enhanced partnership scheme—\n(a) must be measures taken for the purpose of—\n(i) increasing the use of local services ... to which the measures relate or ending or reducing a decline in the use of such services, or\n(ii) improving the quality of local services ... to which the measures relate, but\n(b) may not include the provision of such facilities as are described in subsection (1)(a) or as are required to be provided as a result of section 139 or 140.\n(3) The Secretary of State may by regulations make further provision about the measures which may or may not be specified in an enhanced partnership scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 138A-138S and cross-heading inserted (27.4.2017 for specified purposes, 27.6.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Bus Services Act 2017 (c. 21), ss. 9, 26(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 138D(2)(a) omitted (1.4.2026) by virtue of Bus Services Act 2025 (c. 24), ss. 15(3), 41(5); S.I. 2026/46, reg. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 138A-143B: functions transferred (E.) (28.2.2024) by The East Midlands Combined County Authority Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/232), regs. 1(2), 15(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 112-159: transfer of functions (5.2.2025) by The Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/113), arts. 1(2), 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/38/section/138D",
    "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."
}