Commentary Schedule 9: School Travel Schemes Section 79: Piloting of school travel scheme provisions
401.This section provides that the new provisions inserted by section 78 of and Schedule 9 to the Act must be piloted in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State. Subsection (2) provides that such regulations may impose a limit on the number of school travel schemes that can be in force while the new provisions are being piloted. It is currently anticipated that regulations will impose a limit of 20 school travel schemes in England. The number of pilots can be expanded, through secondary legislation, if demand from local education authorities proves high.