Commentary Part 3: Bus Services Section 43: Guidance about schemes
128.This section inserts a new section 134A into the TA 2000 making provision for the appropriate national authority in England and Wales to issue guidance about the performance by local transport authorities of their functions in respect of quality contracts schemes. Local authorities are required to have regard to any such guidance in the exercise of those functions.
	*The appropriate national authority is the Secretary of State (in England) or the Welsh Ministers (in Wales).