Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981

39Stage carriage services in trial areas

(1)A road service licence is not required for the provision of a stage carriage service within a trial area.

(2)Where a stage carriage service operates partly within one or more trial areas and partly not within a trial area—

(a)a road service licence is not required in respect of so much of the service as operates not within a trial area but within a traffic area in which (except in any trial area) passengers are neither taken up nor set down in the course of the service; and

(b)any conditions attached to a road service licence under which any part of that service is provided shall not apply in relation to so much of the service as operates within any trial area.

(3)So much of subsection (3) of section 1 of the [1967 c. 76.] Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 as provides that no prohibition or restriction on waiting imposed by a traffic regulation order under that section shall apply to a stage carriage shall not operate within a trial area.