The Act National technological standard for smart ticketing – section 42
295.Section 42(2) inserts a new section 27B into the 2001 Act which confers on the Scottish Ministers the power to specify and publish a technological standard for the implementation and operation of smart ticketing arrangements.
296.The standard specified is particularly relevant to ticketing schemes made under section 29 of the 2001 Act. Future ticketing schemes must require any arrangements made under those schemes to comply with the national technological standard (see section 44(2)(a)).
297.Rather than setting out the full details of the standard, Ministers may choose to specify a standard that already exists and has been published elsewhere – see section 27B(2).