The Secretary of State may, for the purpose of facilitating travel by disabled persons, make regulations requiring operators of local services to make available information about a local service to persons travelling on the service.
The regulations may make provision about—
the descriptions of information that are to be made available;
how information is to be made available.
The regulations may, in particular, require an operator of a local service to make available information of a prescribed description about—
the name or other designation of the local service;
the direction of travel;
stopping places;
diversions;
connecting local services.
The regulations may, in particular—
specify when information of a prescribed description is to be made available;
specify how information of a prescribed description is to be made available, including requiring information to be both announced and displayed;
specify standards for the provision of information, including standards based on an announcement being audible or a display being visible to a person of a prescribed description in a prescribed location;
specify forms of communication that are not to be regarded as satisfying a requirement to make information available.
Regulations under this section may make different provision—
as respects different descriptions of vehicle;
as respects the same description of vehicle in different circumstances.
Before making regulations under this section, the Secretary of State must consult—
the Welsh Ministers;
the Scottish Ministers.