Statutory Instruments
2009 No. 786
Public Passenger Transport
The Public Service Vehicles (Operators’ Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
Made
25th March 2009
Laid before Parliament
30th March 2009
Coming into force
20th April 2009
The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 18(3)(aa), 60(1) and 60(1A) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981( 1 ).
Representative organisations have been consulted with in accordance with section 61(2) of the 1981 Act ( 2 ).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as The Public Service Vehicles (Operators’ Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and shall come into force on 20th April 2009.
Amendments
2. —(1)The Public Service Vehicles (Operators’ Licences) Regulations 1995( 3 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 3(1), after the definition of “local authority”, there shall be inserted—
“ notice of election” means a notice for the purposes of regulation 11(4) of these Regulations served prior to 20th April 2009; ”
(3) In regulation 11 (which deals with the coming into force and expiry of discs)—
(a) in paragraph (2)(a), for “if paragraph (3) applies to the disc” there shall be substituted “in any case where a notice of election is in force”.
(b) paragraphs (3) and (4) shall be omitted.
(c) for paragraph (5), there shall be substituted “All notices of election shall cease to have effect on 31 March 2010 or at the end of the current 1 year period of the relevant licence, if sooner.”
(d) paragraphs (6) and (7) shall be omitted.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Jim Fitzpatrick
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
25th March 2009
1981 c.14 . Paragraph (aa) of section 18(3) was inserted by section 63 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c.40) and section 60(1A) was inserted by section 134 of the Transport Act 1985 (c.67) (in these footnotes called “the 1985 Act”). For the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”, see section 60(2) of the 1981 Act, as amended by the 1985 Act, section 134.
Section 61(2) of the 1981 Act was amended by the 1985 Act.