The Bus Services Improvement Partnerships (Multi-operator Travel Cards) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 No. 243


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Scottish Statutory Instruments

2024 No. 243

Transport

The Bus Services Improvement Partnerships (Multi-operator Travel Cards) (Scotland) Regulations 2024

Made

10th September 2024

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

12th September 2024

Coming into force

8th November 2024

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3C(6) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001( 1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Bus Services Improvement Partnerships (Multi-operator Travel Cards) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 and come into force on 8 November 2024.

Multi-operator travel cards

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 3C of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 “ multi-operator travel cards” means a ticket entitling the holder to make three or more journeys on specified local services operating on three or more routes provided that—

(a) the routes are not substantially the same, and

(b) in practice, the ticket is not substantially used by passengers as—

(i) a ticket entitling the holder, where a particular journey could be made on local services provided by any of two or more operators, to make that journey or any part of it on whichever service the holder chooses,

(ii) a ticket entitling the holder to make a particular journey on two or more complementary local services which are not in competition with each other over a substantial part of the route covered by the ticket in question.

(2) In this regulation “ ticket” means evidence of a contractual right to travel.

JIM FAIRLIE

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

10th September 2024

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations set out the meaning of multi-operator travel cards under section 3C of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001.

( 1)

2001 asp 2. Section 3C was inserted by section 35 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 17).


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