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

Manner of making applications

3.—(1) Every application shall—

(a) be made on a form supplied by the Department and contain the information required by that form;

(b) be signed—

(i) if made by an individual, by that person;

(ii) if made by a firm, by all of the partners of that firm or by one of them with the authority of the others; and

(iii) if made by any other body or group of persons, by one or more individual persons authorised for that purpose by the body or group;

(c) if made for the issue of a licence, state whether it relates to a standard licence or to a restricted licence and, if it relates to a standard licence, state whether the licence is to cover—

(i) both national and international transport operations; or

(ii) national transport operations only.

(2) A person applying for an operator’s licence shall give to the Department a statement—

(a) containing details of the motor vehicles required to be used under the licence and stating the number, type and registration mark of any vehicles and trailers proposed to be used under the licence; and

(b) containing the name and address of the operating centre of the applicant if the licence is issued.

(3) A person applying for an operator’s licence shall, if required by the Department to do so, give any of the information specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1.

(4) For the purposes of section 8(1) a prescribed event required to be notified to the Department is the occurrence and particulars of a notifiable conviction within the meaning given in paragraph 4 of Schedule 1.

(5) Without prejudice to paragraph (3), a person applying for an operator’s licence shall also, if required by the Department to do so, give such particulars as may be required with respect to the use which the applicant proposes to make, for vehicles used under the licence, of any referred to in the statement under paragraph (2)(a).