Public Transport Regulation Act 2009
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Attachment of conditions to licences. |
13.— (1) When granting, amending or renewing a licence, the Authority may apply conditions to the licence in respect of the operation of the public bus passenger service to which it relates. | |
(2) Notwithstanding the generality of subsection (1), the Authority may impose conditions that relate to— | ||
(a) compliance by the applicant or licence holder at all times with the requirements of section 10 (3), | ||
(b) the scheduling and frequency of bus services, including variations of such frequencies on different days or at different periods of each day, | ||
(c) the route to be taken by the service, | ||
(d) the stopping places on the route for the service, including conditions relating to access to or egress from the service at specified points, | ||
(e) the commencement and completion points of the service, | ||
(f) the ticketing for services, including where appropriate, the integration of ticketing with other transport services provided by the applicant or other public transport service operators, | ||
(g) the provision of ticket dispensing machines or other ticketing, including integrated ticketing, equipment, | ||
(h) the minimum number of vehicles that must be kept available for deployment in the provision of the service, and | ||
(i) the minimum accessibility standards and emission standards for pollutants and noise to be complied with by vehicles deployed in the provision of the service. | ||
(3) The Authority may require that a timetable for a public bus passenger service be provided by the applicant and that such timetable be displayed for the information of the public at places and in such a manner as it determines. | ||
(4) Save where the Authority deems it not to be appropriate, the Authority shall require that a licence, or a document displaying details of a licence in a format it has approved, must be displayed in the vehicle being used to provide a public bus passenger service and may set out the locations and method for that display. | ||
(5) The Authority may publish the timetable of any public bus passenger service in respect of which a licence has been granted in any format using any means, including electronic, that it sees fit. | ||
(6) The Authority may establish different and separate conditions in relation to different categories of public bus passenger services. | ||
(7) A licence holder or a person acting on behalf of a licence holder who in the provision of a public bus passenger service does not comply with a condition applied to a licence commits an offence. |