Transport Act 1980

1. Introductory Text

2. Part I Public Service Vehicles

   1. Preliminary

      1. 1. Preliminary

   2. Definition and classification of public service vehicles

      1. 2. Definition of " public service vehicle "

      2. 3. Classification of public service vehicles as stage, express or contract carriages

   3. Road service licences

      1. 4. Road service licences

      2. 5. Grant of road service licences

      3. 6. Attachment to road service licences of conditions as to matters other than fares

      4. 7. Attachment to road service licences of conditions as to fares

      5. 8. Grant of road service licences for services on routes not otherwise served

      6. 9. Grant of road service licences for certain excursions or tours

      7. 10. Revocation and suspension of road service licences

      8. 11. Duration of road service licences

   4. Trial areas

      1. 12. Designation of trial areas

      2. 13. Stage carriage services in trial areas

      3. 14. Duty to publish particulars of stage carriage services in trial areas

      4. 15. Relaxation in trial areas of operators' duties to co-operate and exchange information

   5. Fitness of public service vehicles

      1. 16. Powers of, and facilities for, inspection of public service vehicles

      2. 17. Certificate of initial fitness (or equivalent) required for use of public service vehicle

      3. 18. Power to prohibit driving of unfit public service vehicles

   6. Public service vehicle operators' licences

      1. 19. PSV operators' licences

      2. 20. Classification of licences

      3. 21. Grant and duration of licences

      4. 22. Conditions attached to licences

      5. 23. Revocation, suspension, etc. of licences

      6. 24. Duty to exhibit operator's disc

      7. 25. Duty to inform traffic commissioners of relevant convictions, etc

      8. 26. Duty to give traffic commissioners information about vehicles

      9. 27. Certificates of qualification

   7. Supplementary provisions relating to licences

      1. 28. Appeals to the Minister

      2. 29. Further appeals on points of law

      3. 30. Partnerships and related matters

      4. 31. Death, bankruptcy, etc. of licence-holder

   8. Other matters

      1. 32. Fare-paying passengers on school buses

      2. 33. Use of certain vehicles by educational and other bodies

      3. 34. Obligatory test certificates for passenger-carrying vehicles

      4. 35. Amendment of Transport (London) Act 1969

      5. 36. Abolition of licensing of conductors of public service vehicles

      6. 37. Reduction of minimum age for drivers of public service vehicles

      7. 38. Fees for grant of licences, etc

      8. 39. Arrangements for appointment of traffic commissioners

      9. 40. Increase of penalties

      10. 41. Offences by bodies corporate

      11. 42. Defences available to persons charged with certain offences

      12. 43. Amendments of other Acts

      13. 44. Interpretation of Part I

3. Part II Transfer of Undertaking of National Freight Corporation

   1. Transfer of undertaking of National Freight Corporation to a company limited by shares

      1. 45. Transfer of undertaking of National Freight Corporation

      2. 46. Initial government holding in successor company

      3. 47. Transitional provisions with respect to reserves, etc

      4. 48. Dissolution and final accounts of National Freight Corporation.

   2. Funding of certain pension obligations

      1. 49. Funding of relevant pension obligations

      2. 50. Meaning of " the relevant pension obligations "

   3. Supplementary

      1. 51. Interpretation of Part II and consequential amendments

4. Part III Railway etc. Pensions

   1. 52. Payments by Minister in respect of B.R. and N.F.C pension schemes

   2. 53. Meaning of " the relevant pension obligations "

   3. 54. Unfunded proportion of relevant pension obligations

   4. 55. Proportion of pensions, etc. which corresponds to relevant pension obligations

   5. 56. Reduction of payments in respect of certain supplementation schemes

   6. 57. Exclusion of payments in respect of certain transfer values

   7. 58. Consequential cancellation of debts owed by Board and Corporation

   8. 59. Supplemental provisions

   9. 60. Interpretation of Part III

5. Part IV Miscellaneous and General

   1. 61. Insurance or security in respect of private use of vehicle to cover use under car-sharing arrangements

   2. 62. Grants towards duty charged on bus fuel, and new bus grants

   3. 63. Articulated vehicles

   4. 64. Roof-signs on vehicles other than taxis

   5. 65. Repeal of s. 2 of 1954 c 64

   6. 66. Abolition of Freight Integration Council and repeal of certain provisions about special authorisations for use of large goods vehicles

   7. 67. Abolition of Railways and Coastal Shipping Committee

   8. 68. Expenses

   9. 69. Repeals

   10. 70. Citation, etc

6. 1. Schedule 1

      Public service vehicles: conditions affecting status or classification

   2. Schedule 2

      Orders designating trial areas

   3. Schedule 3

      Supplementary provisions as to qualifications for PSV operator's licence

   4. Schedule 4

      Increase of penalties in the 1960 Act

   5. Schedule 5

      Minor and consequential amendments relating to public service vehicles

   6. Schedule 6

      Supplementary provisions with respect to transfer under section 45

   7. Schedule 7

      Amendments consequential on Part II

   8. Schedule 8

      B.R. pension schemes

   9. Schedule 9

      Repeals