sec.10Obligations about public passenger transport

### sec.10 Obligations about public passenger transport The chief executive must ensure— public passenger transport is developed in a way that— takes into account best practice and national benchmarks; and promotes, within overall transport objectives, the safety of passengers; and encourages efficient, competitive and commercial behaviour in the provision of public passenger transport; and ensures a strategic and integrated approach to the provision of public passenger transport; and promotes energy efficiency and reduces adverse environmental impact; and public passenger transport operates to achieve— efficiency; and cost effectiveness; and the highest quality and accessibility of services, and effective infrastructure, consistent with reasonable cost; and funding provided by the State for public passenger transport is applied in an efficient, cost effective and equitable way. Each annual report of the department must include a report on how effect has been given to subsection (1) during the year to which the report relates. s 10 amd 2009 No. 47 s 21 (sec.10-ssec.1) The chief executive must ensure— public passenger transport is developed in a way that— takes into account best practice and national benchmarks; and promotes, within overall transport objectives, the safety of passengers; and encourages efficient, competitive and commercial behaviour in the provision of public passenger transport; and ensures a strategic and integrated approach to the provision of public passenger transport; and promotes energy efficiency and reduces adverse environmental impact; and public passenger transport operates to achieve— efficiency; and cost effectiveness; and the highest quality and accessibility of services, and effective infrastructure, consistent with reasonable cost; and funding provided by the State for public passenger transport is applied in an efficient, cost effective and equitable way. (sec.10-ssec.2) Each annual report of the department must include a report on how effect has been given to subsection (1) during the year to which the report relates. - (a) public passenger transport is developed in a way that— (i) takes into account best practice and national benchmarks; and (ii) promotes, within overall transport objectives, the safety of passengers; and (iii) encourages efficient, competitive and commercial behaviour in the provision of public passenger transport; and (iv) ensures a strategic and integrated approach to the provision of public passenger transport; and (v) promotes energy efficiency and reduces adverse environmental impact; and - (i) takes into account best practice and national benchmarks; and - (ii) promotes, within overall transport objectives, the safety of passengers; and - (iii) encourages efficient, competitive and commercial behaviour in the provision of public passenger transport; and - (iv) ensures a strategic and integrated approach to the provision of public passenger transport; and - (v) promotes energy efficiency and reduces adverse environmental impact; and - (b) public passenger transport operates to achieve— (i) efficiency; and (ii) cost effectiveness; and (iii) the highest quality and accessibility of services, and effective infrastructure, consistent with reasonable cost; and - (i) efficiency; and - (ii) cost effectiveness; and - (iii) the highest quality and accessibility of services, and effective infrastructure, consistent with reasonable cost; and - (c) funding provided by the State for public passenger transport is applied in an efficient, cost effective and equitable way. - (i) takes into account best practice and national benchmarks; and - (ii) promotes, within overall transport objectives, the safety of passengers; and - (iii) encourages efficient, competitive and commercial behaviour in the provision of public passenger transport; and - (iv) ensures a strategic and integrated approach to the provision of public passenger transport; and - (v) promotes energy efficiency and reduces adverse environmental impact; and - (i) efficiency; and - (ii) cost effectiveness; and - (iii) the highest quality and accessibility of services, and effective infrastructure, consistent with reasonable cost; and