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The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

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Identification of motor vehicles

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21.—(1) The Department shall, when any motor vehicle to be used under a licence is specified in the licence, issue to the licence-holder a disc in respect of the vehicle.

(2) The disc shall clearly indicate (by colour or other means)—

(a)whether a vehicle is being used under a standard licence or under a restricted licence;

(b)in the case of a vehicle being used under a standard licence, whether the vehicle covers both international and national transport operations or national transport operations only;

(c)where applicable, that the vehicle is being used under an interim licence, or pursuant to an interim direction, and in such a case, the date the interim licence was issued or the interim direction was given; and

(d)subject to paragraph (6), the date on which the disc expires under paragraph (5).

(3) The licence-holder shall, during such time as any motor vehicle is specified in the licence and whether or not for the time being the vehicle is being used for the purpose for which a licence is required, cause a disc appropriate to the vehicle to be fixed to, and exhibited in a legible condition on, that vehicle in a waterproof container—

(a)in the case of a vehicle fitted with a front windscreen, on the near side and near the lower edge of the windscreen with the obverse side facing forwards; or

(b)in the case of a vehicle not fitted with a front windscreen, in a conspicuous position on the front or near side of the vehicle.

(4) At no time shall any person except the Department, or a person authorised to do so on its behalf, write on or make any other alteration to a disc.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6) and without prejudice to regulation 26, a disc shall expire at the end of the last day of the month in which the continuation fee for a licence falls due.

(6) Neither paragraph (5) nor paragraph (2)(d) apply where a disc is issued under an interim licence or pursuant to an interim direction.

(7) For the purposes of paragraph (5)—

(a)“continuation fee” means the fee numbered 3 as specified in the Table in regulation 2 of Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland)(1); and

(b)the time within which such a fee falls due is determined in accordance with regulation 4 of those Regulations.

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