ART 4 P OWERS OF SCOTTISH MINISTERS IN RELATION TO CERTAIN EXPRESSIONS USED IN THIS SCHEDULE P 26 (1) Without limit to the generality of section 3L, the Scottish Ministers may by 25 regulations specify— (a) the descriptions of local services that are qualifying local services for the purposes of this schedule, (b) what constitutes a sufficient number of persons for the purposes of 30 paragraphs 5(1), 7(4), 15(1), 17(4) and 24, (c) how the qualifying time is to be determined for the purposes of paragraphs 13(a), 14(1), 15(1), 17(2) and (4), 23(1) and 24. (2) Regulations made in pursuance of sub-paragraph (1)(b) may, in particular— (a) require that a sufficient number of persons is— 35 (i) all persons providing qualifying local services in the area in question, or (ii) such number of persons as, together, provide at least such proportion of the qualifying local services in the area in question as is specified in the regulations, in addition to being at least such 40 proportion of all persons providing those services as is specified in the regulations, 36 Transport (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Bus services (b) make provision about determining the proportion of qualifying local services provided by an operator, including provision about the time by reference to which the proportion is to be determined.”. 31 Registration of local services and functions of traffic commissioner 5 (1) The Transport Act 1985 Act is amended as follows. (2) In section 6 (registration of local services)— (a) after subsection (2) insert— “(2ZA)Where— (a) a bus services improvement partnership scheme made under section 3B 10 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 is in operation, (b) a service is registered or a registration of a service is varied under this section, and (c) a service standard imposed under section 3B(3)(b) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 applies to the service or the service as varied, 15 the service standard is to be recorded with the particulars of the service required to be registered under this section.”, (b) after subsection (7) insert— “(7ZA)Where a bus services improvement partnership scheme made under section 3B of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 is in operation, the registration of a 20 service may also be cancelled under section 6L of this Act.”. (3) After section 6J insert— “6K Application for registration where service standard has effect (1) This section applies where— (a) a bus services improvement partnership scheme made under section 3B 25 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 is in operation, (b) a service standard imposed under section 3B(3)(b) of that Act has effect, (c) an application for registration, or for variation of registration, is made under section 6 of this Act in respect of a local service to which that service standard would apply if the application were granted, and 30 (d) the application is one which would, but for this section, fall to be accepted. (2) A traffic commissioner must refuse the application if— (a) the service standard is an operational service standard, and (b) the traffic commissioner considers that the person who would be the 35 operator of— (i) the service proposed to be provided, or (ii) the service as proposed to be varied, is unlikely to be able to comply with the service standard as regards that service.