Bus Services Act 2025
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18 Requirements enabling travel by persons with disabilities
(1) The Transport Act 2000 is amended as follows. (2) After section 138C (requirements in respect of local services) insert— Requirements enabling travel by persons with disabilities 138CA (1) An enhanced partnership scheme may specify under section 138A(5)(b) requirements about enabling persons with disabilities to travel on local services independently, and in safety and reasonable comfort. (2) The requirements may include requirements about securing alternative means for the carriage of a person with a disability where— (a) the person cannot travel on a public service vehicle being used to provide a local service because the vehicle’s wheelchair space is occupied and cannot be vacated readily, and (b) it is possible for the person, together with any wheelchair, mobility aid or assistance dog which the person has with them, to be carried in safety and reasonable comfort to the person’s intended destination by a taxi or private hire vehicle. (3) Before making an enhanced partnership scheme, a local transport authority must consider whether the requirements proposed to be specified in the scheme will enable persons with disabilities to travel independently, and in safety and reasonable comfort, on local services that have one or more stopping places in the area to which the scheme relates. (4) In this section— “assistance dog” has the meaning given by section 173(1) of the Equality Act 2010; “mobility aid” has the meaning given by section 164A(6) of that Act; “persons with disabilities” means persons who have a disability within the meaning given by section 6 of that Act. (3) In section 138F(6) (consultation), after paragraph (b) insert— (ba) such persons with disabilities (within the meaning given by section 6 of the Equality Act 2010) who are users or prospective users of local services, or such organisations appearing to the authority or authorities to be representative of such persons, as they think fit, . (4) In section 138K (variation), after subsection (8) insert— (9) Before varying an enhanced partnership scheme, a local transport authority must consider whether the requirements proposed to be specified in the scheme as varied will enable persons with disabilities to travel independently, and in safety and reasonable comfort, on local services that have one or more stopping places in the area to which the scheme as proposed to be varied relates. (10) In this section “persons with disabilities” means persons who have a disability within the meaning given by section 6 of the Equality Act 2010. (5) In section 138A(5)(b) (requirements which may be specified in enhanced partnership schemes), for “section 138C” substitute “sections 138C and 138CA”.
18 Requirements enabling travel by persons with disabilities
(1) The Transport Act 2000 is amended as follows. (2) After section 138C (requirements in respect of local services) insert— Requirements enabling travel by persons with disabilities 138CA (1) An enhanced partnership scheme may specify under section 138A(5)(b) requirements about enabling persons with disabilities to travel on local services independently, and in safety and reasonable comfort. (2) The requirements may include requirements about securing alternative means for the carriage of a person with a disability where— (a) the person cannot travel on a public service vehicle being used to provide a local service because the vehicle’s wheelchair space is occupied and cannot be vacated readily, and (b) it is possible for the person, together with any wheelchair, mobility aid or assistance dog which the person has with them, to be carried in safety and reasonable comfort to the person’s intended destination by a taxi or private hire vehicle. (3) Before making an enhanced partnership scheme, a local transport authority must consider whether the requirements proposed to be specified in the scheme will enable persons with disabilities to travel independently, and in safety and reasonable comfort, on local services that have one or more stopping places in the area to which the scheme relates. (4) In this section— “assistance dog” has the meaning given by section 173(1) of the Equality Act 2010; “mobility aid” has the meaning given by section 164A(6) of that Act; “persons with disabilities” means persons who have a disability within the meaning given by section 6 of that Act. (3) In section 138F(6) (consultation), after paragraph (b) insert— (ba) such persons with disabilities (within the meaning given by section 6 of the Equality Act 2010) who are users or prospective users of local services, or such organisations appearing to the authority or authorities to be representative of such persons, as they think fit, . (4) In section 138K (variation), after subsection (8) insert— (9) Before varying an enhanced partnership scheme, a local transport authority must consider whether the requirements proposed to be specified in the scheme as varied will enable persons with disabilities to travel independently, and in safety and reasonable comfort, on local services that have one or more stopping places in the area to which the scheme as proposed to be varied relates. (10) In this section “persons with disabilities” means persons who have a disability within the meaning given by section 6 of the Equality Act 2010. (5) In section 138A(5)(b) (requirements which may be specified in enhanced partnership schemes), for “section 138C” substitute “sections 138C and 138CA”.
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