Bus Services (Wales) Act 2026 / Deddf Gwasanaethau Bysiau (Cymru) 2026
Bus Services (Wales) Act 2026 / Deddf Gwasanaethau Bysiau (Cymru) 2026 (2026 c. 2)
- Bus Services (Wales) Act 2026 / Deddf Gwasanaethau Bysiau (Cymru) 2026 (2026 c. 2)
- PART 1 KEY CONCEPTS AND GENERAL OBJECTIVES
- Key concepts
- 1 Meaning of “local bus service”
- 2 Meaning of “embarkation point” and “disembarkation point”
- 3 Meaning of “flexible local bus service” and “standard local bus service”
- Objectives
- 4 Welsh Ministers’ duty to have regard to objectives
- PART 2 FUNCTIONS OF THE WELSH MINISTERS RELATING TO LOCAL BUS SERVICES
- Core duties of the Welsh Ministers
- 5 Local bus services: core duties
- Welsh Bus Network Plan
- 6 Preparation of Welsh Bus Network Plan
- 7 Review and revision of Welsh Bus Network Plan
- 8 Further provision about revisions to the Welsh Bus Network Plan
- 9 Revision of Welsh Bus Network Plan: local authority duties
- Local bus service contracts
- 10 Local bus service contracts
- 11 Power to make supplementary provision about local bus service contracts
- Local bus service permits
- 12 Local bus service permits
- 13 Period for which local bus service permit has effect
- 14 Conditions attached to local bus service permits
- 15 Applications for local bus service permits
- 16 Revocation and suspension of local bus service permits
- 17 Local bus service permits: appeals
- Local bus services provided by the Welsh Ministers
- 18 Provision of local bus services by the Welsh Ministers
- Reliance on certain services
- 19 Reliance on community bus services and certain other services for the purposes of the section 5(1)(c) duty
- Cross-border services
- 20 Cross-border services and the duty to secure the provision of services
- Reporting requirements
- 21 Report on progress towards section 4 objectives
- Notification to be given to a traffic commissioner
- 22 Notification to be given to traffic commissioner of certain matters relating to local bus service contracts and permits
- PART 3 RESTRICTION ON PROVIDING LOCAL BUS SERVICES
- 23 Restriction on providing local bus services
- 24 Duty on Welsh Ministers to inform traffic commissioner of any breach of the restriction
- 25 Enforcement of the restriction
- 26 Enforcement of restriction: appeals
- PART 4 INFORMATION AND DATA
- Provision of information to the Welsh Ministers for the purposes of exercising certain functions
- 27 Provision of information to the Welsh Ministers by current and former operators for the purposes of functions under Part 2 or 3
- 28 Provision of information about infrastructure and certain other matters to the Welsh Ministers by local authorities and community councils for the purposes of functions under Part 2
- Information to be made available to the public
- 29 Duty to secure that information is made available to the public
- 30 Provision of information to the Welsh Ministers for the purposes of section 29
- Legal privilege
- 31 Provision of information: exclusion on grounds of legal privilege
- Enforcement
- 32 Enforcement of information requirements
- 33 Enforcement of information requirements: appeals
- PART 5 LOCAL AUTHORITY POWERS AND DUTIES
- 34 Provision of bus services by local authorities: removal of restriction
- 35 Removal of duty to secure local bus services
- 36 Financial assistance in connection with local bus services
- PART 6 MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
- Transfer of undertakings
- 37 Application of TUPE
- Transport Act 1985: registration of services with traffic commissioner
- 38 Transport Act 1985: removal of requirements relating to registration
- 39 Transport Act 1985: existing registration etc. ceasing to have effect
- Welsh Ministers’ power to secure provision of public passenger transport services
- 40 Restriction on the power to secure the provision of public passenger transport services under section 7 of the Transport (Wales) Act 2006
- Transport Act 2000: local authority schemes
- 41 Transport Act 2000: removal of certain local authority schemes
- General
- 42 Regulations under this Act
- 43 Giving notices etc.
- 44 General interpretation
- 45 Index of defined terms
- 46 Power to make consequential, transitional etc. provision
- 47 Minor and consequential amendments
- 48 Coming into force
- 49 Short title
- SCHEDULE MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS ETC.
- Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27)
- Transport Act 1985 (c. 67)
- Transport Act 2000 (c. 38)
- Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26)
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