Commentary Part 3: Bus Services Section 38: Appeals where proposed variation considered exempt
116.This section inserts a new section 132A into the TA 2000 to provide a procedure to appeal to the Transport Tribunal against a scheme variation where the authority has decided to vary a scheme, and has done so on the basis that the variation was an exempt one. That is to say, it has neither sought the approval of the Welsh Ministers (in Wales) nor responded to a report from a QCS board (in England).
117.Such an appeal may be on a point of law or a question of fact, and section 132A sets out the powers of the Tribunal on such an appeal.