Local Transport Act 2008

15 Making a scheme: different dates for different facilities or standards etc

(1) Section 116 of the TA 2000 (making of scheme) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2) (contents of scheme) after “The scheme must specify” insert “each of the following”.

(3) After paragraph (b) of that subsection (standards of service) insert—

“(bb) any registration restrictions imposed by it and any registration criteria specified in it,”.

(4) After paragraph (d) of that subsection (duration of scheme) insert—

“(e) if any facilities or standards of services are to be provided under the scheme as from a date after the scheme comes into operation, the date as from which they are to be so provided.”.

(5) For subsections (4) and (5) (earliest date on which scheme may come into operation) substitute—

“(4) The date as from which any particular facilities, or any services of a particular standard, are to be provided must not be earlier than—

(a) in the case of facilities, the latest of dates A to C (see subsections (4B) to (4D)),

(b) in the case of services, the later of dates A and D (see subsections (4B) and (4E)),

unless the case falls within subsection (4A).

(4A) If under the scheme—

(a) particular facilities are to be provided by the authority or authorities, and

(b) as from the date by which the facilities are to be provided, services of a particular standard are to be provided by operators of local services when using the facilities,

the date as from which the facilities and the services are to be provided must not be earlier than the latest of dates A to D.

(4B) Date A is the date 3 months after the date on which the scheme is made.

(4C) Date B is the date by which, in the opinion of the authority or authorities, it will be reasonably practicable for the authority or authorities to provide the facilities.

(4D) Date C is the date 3 months after—

(a) the date on which any traffic regulation order required for the provision of any of the facilities is made, or

(b) if more than one such order is required for their provision, the date on which the last of them is made.

(4E) Date D is the date by which, in the opinion of the authority or authorities, it will be reasonably practicable for operators of local services to provide services of the particular standard.”.

(6) In section 162(4) of that Act (interpretation of references to authorities) for the entry relating to section 116 substitute—

• “section 116(2)(a), (4)(a), (4A)(a) and, in the second place, (4C),”.