The Road Transport (International Passenger Services) Regulations 1984

ASOR or Community regulated occasional services by vehicles registered outside the United Kingdom

10.—(1) This Regulation applies to a vehicle registered outside the United Kingdom which is being used for ASOR or Community regulated carriage of passengers—

(a) in so far as the vehicle is used to provide a service for the carriage of passengers such as is mentioned—

(i) in paragraph 1(a) of Article 2 of ASOR or paragraph 1(a) of Article 3 of Council Regulation No. 117/66 (that is to say, an occasional service described in that paragraph as a closed-door tour), or

(ii) in paragraph 1(b) of each of those Articles (that is to say an occasional service as described in that paragraph where passengers are carried on the outward journey and the return journey is made unladen), or

(iii) in paragraph 1(c) of each of those Articles (that is to say, an occasional service as mentioned in that paragraph of any other description); and

(b) in so far as, in relation to the use of the vehicle—

(i) in the case of a vehicle being used for ASOR regulated carriage, the requirements of Articles 7, 8 and 9 of, and the Annex to, ASOR (which provides for the completion, by the person by whom or on whose behalf a vehicle is used to provide such an occasional service as aforesaid, of a passenger waybill in respect of the service in question and for the carrying of the top copy of such waybill on the vehicle at all times while it is used on that service) and in the case of a vehicle being used for Community regulated carriage, the requirements of Articles 2, 3 and 4 of, and Annex 2 to, Commission Regulation No. 1016/68 (which provides as aforesaid), have been complied with, and

(ii) the vehicle is used on the service in question in circumstances which accord in all respects with the particulars which, in pursuance of the said requirements, have been specified in the said passenger waybill as applicable to that service.

(2) In relation to a vehicle to which the Regulation applies, the provisions of the Act of 1981 shall have effect as if sections 6, 18, 22 and 30 of the Act of 1981 were omitted and—

(a) in so far as the vehicle is used to provide a service for the carriage of passengers such as is mentioned—

(i) in Article 2(1)(a) or (b) of ASOR or Article 3(1)(a) or (b) of Council Regulation No. 117/66, or

(ii) in a case where the service is ASOR regulated and all the conditions mentioned in Article 5(2) of ASOR are fulfilled, in Article 2(1)(c) of ASOR, or

(iii) in a case where the service is Community regulated and all the conditions mentioned in Article 5(2) of the said Council Regulation are fulfilled, in Article 2(1)(c) of that Regulation,

as if section 12 of the Act of 1981 were omitted; and

(b) in so far as the vehicle is used as a public service vehicle to provide a service for the carriage of passengers such as is mentioned in Article 2(1)(c) of ASOR or Article 2(1)(c) of the said Council Regulation and—

(i) in a case where the service is ASOR regulated any of the conditions mentioned in Article 5(2) of ASOR are not fulfilled, or

(ii) in a case where the service is Community regulated, any of the conditions mentioned in Article 5(2) of the said Council Regulation are not fulfilled,

as if for the said section 12 there were substituted the section set out in Schedule 2.