(1)Each local transport authority shall from time to time determine, having regard to their relevant general policies—
(a)what local bus information should be made available to the public (in this section referred to as the “required information”); and
(b)the way in which it should be made available (in this section and in section 34 of this Act referred to as the “appropriate way”).
(2)Before making such a determination, the authority shall consult—
(a)the traffic commissioner;
(b)such organisations appearing to the authority to be representative of users of local services as they think fit; and
(c)such other persons as the authority think fit.
(3)Each authority shall from time to time ascertain whether the required information is being made available to the public in the appropriate way.
(4)If an authority ascertain that the required information is not being made available to the public in the appropriate way the authority shall seek to make arrangements with the operator or operators of the local services concerned under which the operator or operators agree to make the information available in that way.
(5)In this section—
“local bus information”, in relation to a local transport authority, means—
information about routes and timetabling of local services to, from and within the authority’s area;
information about fares for journeys on such local services; and
such other information about facilities for disabled persons, travel concessions, connections with other public passenger transport services (within the meaning of the 1985 Act) or other matters of value to the public as the authority consider appropriate in relation to their area; and
“travel concession” has the meaning given by section 68(7) of this Act.
(6)This section and sections 34 and 35 of this Act do not apply to any local authority to the extent that any part of the area of the authority is comprised in the passenger transport area of the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority.