Legislation – Bus Services Act 2025
Franchising schemes: non-franchised services
8Substitute road services
(1)
Section 123J of the Transport Act 2000 (effect of local service contracts: registration requirements and provision of services) is amended as follows.
(2)
In subsection (5)—
(a)
omit the “or” at the end of paragraph (a);
(b)
(3)
After subsection (7) insert—
“(8)
A service falls within this subsection if it is a local service provided under an agreement entered into, where a service for the carriage of passengers by railway or tramway has been temporarily interrupted—
(a)
under section 40 of the Railways Act 2005 (substitute road services), or
(b)
with the person who usually provides the railway or tramway service.”