Commentary on Sections Section 7: Provision of public passenger transport services
25.This section empowers the Assembly to secure the provision of any public passenger transport service which it considers appropriate for the purpose of meeting any public transport requirements within Wales which would not, in the view of the Assembly, otherwise be met. In doing so the Assembly is required to have regard to economy, efficiency and effectiveness, to the Wales Transport Strategy, and to the transport needs of the elderly or disabled. One of the ways in which the Assembly will be able to secure the necessary provision is by entering into agreements with the providers of such services under which the service will receive financial assistance (service subsidies) but only if the service in question would not be provided without a subsidy.