LEZ — Bus / coach: 'tendered services' grace under scheme

Most Scottish LEZ Scheme Orders contain a longer grace period for buses operating tendered local services where the operator is engaged in a Bus Services Improvement Partnership / Bus Service Operator's Grant funded fleet replacement programme. Glasgow LEZ Scheme Order 2022 grants extended grace to certain First Bus, McGill's and SPT-tendered services until specified milestones. Where a tendered bus operator receives an LEZ PCN for a non-compliant vehicle deployed on a tendered route during the extended grace period, reg 8(4)(a) applies — no contravention.

Legal basis

Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 s.15 (grace periods), s.17 (time-limited exemptions); SPT/council tendered service contracts; relevant LEZ Scheme Order

How to identify this in your case

Vehicle is bus/coach operated by tendered service operator; route was a tendered service; date is within the extended grace specified in the Scheme Order.

Sample appeal wording

Dear [COUNCIL] LEZ Team, Re: PCN [PCN_NUMBER] — fleet vehicle [VRN] Representation under reg 8(1); ground reg 8(4)(a). Vehicle [VRN] is a [BUS/COACH] operated by [OPERATOR_NAME] on tendered service [ROUTE_REF] under contract with [SPT / COUNCIL]. The vehicle benefits from the extended bus-fleet grace period in the [LEZ] Scheme Order para [REF], which applies until [DATE]. The detection date of [DETECTION_DATE] is within that grace. Evidence: tendered service contract reference [REF]; SPT/Transport Scotland letter confirming grace; fleet replacement schedule. Please cancel. Yours faithfully, [NAME], on behalf of [OPERATOR]

Replace [PARKING DATE], [NtK DATE] etc. with your own dates before sending.

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Sources

Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 s.15, s.17
council LEZ Scheme Orders