Statutory Instruments
2013 No. 1750
Road Traffic
The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
Made
12th July 2013
Laid before Parliament
17th July 2013
Coming into force
15th August 2013
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(2)(d) and 57(1), (7) and (8) of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995( 1 ).
Representative organisations have been consulted in accordance with section 57(12) of that Act.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 15th August 2013.
Amendment of Regulations
2. —(1)The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Regulations 1995( 2 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In Part 1 of Schedule 3, after paragraph 23 insert—
“ 23A. —(1) A vehicle which is being used in Great Britain to carry out a cabotage operation—
(a) which consists of national carriage for hire or reward by a haulier who is a holder of a Community licence and whose driver, if a national of a country which is not a member State, holds a driver attestation;
(b) where the vehicle is being used only for the carriage of vehicles in categories M 1 and N 1 , as defined in Annex II to Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 September 2007 establishing a framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles ( 3 ) ; and
(c) the vehicle is being used at any time during a period beginning with—
(i) 22nd February and ending with 31st March; or
(ii) 25th August and ending with 30th September.
(2) In this paragraph “Community licence” and “driver attestation” have the same meanings as in Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international road haulage market.” ”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Stephen Hammond
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
12th July 2013
1995 c.23 . Section 2(2) was amended by S.I 2011/2632 , Schedule 2, paragraph 2(3). See section 58(1) for the meaning of “prescribed” and “regulations”.
S.I. 1995/2869 , amended by S.I 2010/455 ; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.
OJ No. L263, 9.10.2007, p.1. The Directive has been amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1060/2008 of 7 October 2008 (OJ No. L292 1, 31.10.2008), Regulation (EC) No. 78/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009 (OJ No. L35 1, 4.2.2009), Regulation (EC) No. 79/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 January 2009 (OJ No. L35 32, 4.2.2009), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 385/2009 of 7 May 2009 (OJ No. L 118 13, 13.5.2009), Regulation (EC) No. 661/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 (OJ No. L200 1, 31.7.2009), Commission Directive 2010/19/EU of 9 March 2010 (OJ L72 17, 20.3.2010) and Commission Regulation (EU) No. 371/2010 of 16 April 2010 (OJ L110 1, 1.5.2010) and by Commission Regulation (EU) No. 678/2011 of 14 July 2011 (OJ L185 30, 15.7.2011) which replaced Annex II.