Variations of registered services
9.—(1) A registered service may be varied without variation of the registration in the cases specified in paragraph (2).
(2) The cases referred to in paragraph (1) are as follows:
(a)a service may be varied in respect of journeys on Christmas Day, Good Friday, or a bank holiday;
(b)a journey on a service identified in the registration as an excursion or tour may be withdrawn or curtailed;
(c)the timetable of any service may be varied to timings in no case more than 5 minutes earlier or later than those in the registered timetable;
(d)the route of any service may be varied to the extent required to comply with any temporary prohibition or restriction of the use of any road by traffic by or under any enactment or with any direction by a police constable;
(e)the route number or name of a service, when registered in accordance with the Public Passenger Vehicles (Registration of Local Services: Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1985(1), may be altered or its use abandoned; and
(f)a service which is not available to the general public and which is provided by a local education authority or (in Scotland) an education authority to transport pupils to school may be varied temporarily so far as may be necessary to enable that authority to comply with its duty(2) to provide such transport.
Section 55(1) of the Education Act 1944 (c. 31) and section 51(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 44)