The Regional Transport Partnerships (Establishment, Constitution and Membership) (Scotland) Order 2005
Section 1(1) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 places the Scottish Ministers under a duty to, by order–divide Scotland into regions for the purposes of Part 1 of that Act (Regional Transport);create, for each region, a body corporate to be known as the Transport Partnership; andprovide as to the constitution and membership of each Transport Partnership.