(30 Dec 2019, 4:42 pm)streetdeckfan wrote To me, it shouldn't be about whether a service is registered or not, if they carry passengers, they should have to comply. End of.

I personally think the issue still lies with the local authority, sure everyone might have presumed that they wouldn't have to comply, but I would have thought that the local authority would have had their own requirements to make sure that the vehicles they run comply rather than going purely on the lowest price.

Problem there is a lot of school services these days are not local authority backed - they're private contracts with the schools (or indeed parents) themselves. Majority of local authority contracted school buses will not have to comply as they're used only by kids with passes. Of course the schools etc didn't know anything about PSVAR coming in until local authorities told them a few months ago. Now it's all a bit of a rush to comply - the price of old Levante's has gone through the roof!