Transport (Scotland) Act 2001

[F1 13D Proposed franchising frameworks S

(1) A proposed franchising framework must specify—

(a) the area to which the framework relates,

(b) the local services which are to be provided under franchise agreements,

(c) that the framework is, in so far as relating to each local service included in it, to come into operation—

(i) on a date not earlier than 6 months after the day on which the local transport authority who made it enter into a franchise agreement in respect of that service, or

(ii) on such earlier date as the local transport authority may specify,

(d) the period during which it is to remain in operation,

(e) the standards to which services must be provided under franchise agreements.

(2) A proposed franchising framework may—

(a) provide for the exemption of such local services or such descriptions of local services as the framework may specify, and

(b) specify conditions (if any) as to when such exemptions are to apply.

(3) A proposed franchising framework may provide for such other matters as the local transport authority think fit.

(4) If a proposed franchising framework relates to an area to which a partnership scheme also relates, the proposed franchising framework—

(a) must include—

(i) in a case where the partnership scheme relates only to the area to which the proposed franchising framework relates or a part of that area, provision revoking the partnership scheme, or

(ii) in any other case, provision varying the partnership scheme so that it ceases to relate to any part of the area to which the proposed franchising framework relates, and

(b) may include provision varying the partnership plan or, if appropriate, revoking the plan.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 2 Ch. 2 substituted for ss. 13-27 and cross-heading (4.12.2023) by Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 17), ss. 38(2), 130(2) (with s. 126); S.S.I. 2023/250, sch.