Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

(regulation 57(5))

SCHEDULE 18Bus Services specified for the purposes of regulation 57(5)

1.  Bus services provided or secured—

(a)by an Education and Library Board pursuant to arrangements made under Article 52 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1); and

(b)for persons who are elderly or disabled,

and in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied—

(i)seats on the vehicles by means of which the service is provided are normally available to members of the general public and the service is regularly used by such members;

(ii)the stopping places (other than those to or from which the service is mainly provided) are situated at locations where they are likely to be used with reasonable frequency by members of the general public;

(iii)such members are able to make a single journey between any two stopping places upon payment of a fare which is not a deliberate deterrent to their use of the service;

(iv)such members are able to pay the fare at a place and in a manner which are not a deliberate deterrent to their use of the service; and

(v)arrangements are made which afford members of the general public a reasonable opportunity to inform themselves of the existence of the service, the times of its operation, and the places which it serves.

2.  Bus services of any description other than that set out in paragraph 1 which are provided by means of vehicles adapted to carry more than eight passengers (or by smaller vehicles, but only if the services are operated in accordance with a timetable) and in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied—

(i)at least half of the accommodation on the vehicles by means of which the service is provided is normally available to members of the general public and the service is regularly used by such members;

(ii)the stopping places are situated at locations where they are likely to be used with reasonable frequency by members of the general public;

(iii)such members are able to make a single journey between any two stopping places upon payment of a fare which is not a deliberate deterrent to their use of the service;

(iv)there is not displayed on the vehicles by means of which the service is provided any sign or description intended or likely to convey the impression that the service is only available to a particular category of person; and

(v)arrangements are made which afford members of the general public a reasonable opportunity to inform themselves of the existence of the service, times of its operation, and the places which it serves.

In this Schedule “stopping places” means, in relation to any service or part of a service, a point at which passengers are (or, in the case of a proposed service, are proposed to be) taken up or set down in the course of that service or part.