Commentary Part 4: General provisions relating to passenger transport Section 49:  Applications for registration where quality contracts scheme in force
146.This section amends section 6 of the TA 1985 (registration of local services) to give effect to new section 6B of that Act which it inserts. That new section provides for the registration of services within the area of a quality contracts scheme in certain circumstances, as an exception to the general rule (contained in section 129(1)(a) of the TA 2000) that such services cannot be registered in those areas.
147.New section 6B provides that where an operator wishes to provide, in the area of a quality contracts scheme, a service otherwise than under a quality contract he may apply to register that service with the traffic commissioner. The traffic commissioner on receiving the application must consult the authority or authorities that made the quality contracts scheme. The traffic commissioner may not accept the registration unless, within a prescribed time, the authority certifies that the provision of the proposed service will not have an adverse effect on the services provided under quality contracts. A similar procedure is to operate in relation to an application to vary an existing registration of a service provided otherwise than under a quality contract.