Valid from 01/08/2001

Bus services: quality contracts schemesE+W

126 Approval of proposed scheme.E+W

(1)If, having complied with section 125, the authority or authorities wish to proceed with the proposed scheme, they must apply to the appropriate national authority for its approval.

(2)The application must include—

(a)their reasons for wishing to make the scheme, and

(b)such other information as the appropriate national authority may reasonably require.

(3)Any person consulted under section 125(3) may make written representations to the appropriate national authority about the scheme.

(4)The appropriate national authority may approve the proposed scheme, with or without modifications, if it is satisfied that—

(a)the conditions set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 124(1) are met, and

(b)it is in the interests of the public that the scheme is made.

(5)If the appropriate national authority proposes to approve the scheme with modifications, it must first inform the authority or authorities and they must—

(a)consult such of the persons they consulted under section 125(3) as would, in their opinion, be affected by those modifications, and

(b)inform the appropriate national authority as to the outcome of that consultation.

(6)After being informed of that outcome the appropriate national authority may approve the scheme either with those modifications or without modifications.