The Quality Partnership Schemes (England) Regulations 2009
These Regulations make provision about quality partnership schemes which include requirements as to frequencies, timings and maximum fares as a standard of services. A quality partnership scheme is a scheme made by a local transport authority, or two or more local transport authorities, under which the authority provides particular facilities at specific locations along the routes used by local bus services, and operators of local services who wish to use those facilities agree to provide services of a particular standard. Quality partnership schemes are made under Part 2 of the Transport Act 2000, as amended by the Local Transport Act 2008.