Transport Act 1985

21 (1) The Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In section 8 (powers of inspection, including rights of entry, in relation to public service vehicles), after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above, a vehicle which is used to carry passengers for hire or reward only under a permit granted under section 19 or 22 of the Transport Act 1985 (permits relating to the use of vehicles by educational and other bodies or in providing community bus services) shall be treated as not being a public service vehicle.”.

(3) In section 9 (power to prohibit driving of unfit public service vehicles), in subsection (8), after the word " examiner", in the second place where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words " or certifying officer " and for the words " by a certifying officer and " there shall be substituted—

“(a) in the case of a refusal by a public service vehicle examiner, by a certifying officer ; and

(b) in the case of a refusal by a certifying officer, by another certifying officer;

and”.

(4) In section 16(1), there shall be inserted at the beginning " Subject to subsection (1A) below and section 12(7) of the Transport Act 1985 ".

(5) In section 17(3) (grounds for the revocation, suspension, etc., of a PSV operator's licence by a traffic commissioner), there shall be added at the end—

“(f) the licence is one in relation to which a direction given by a traffic commissioner under section 28(4) of the Transport Act 1985 (power when disqualifying a former licence holder to direct that certain other PSV operators' licences should be liable to be revoked, suspended, etc.) has effect”.

(6) In section 17(4) (traffic commissioners not to take action under section 17(1) or (2) without first holding public sitting) for the words " a public sitting" there shall be substituted the words " an inquiry ".

(7) In section 22(2) (person to whom application for public service vehicle driver licence to be made), for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the words " the traffic commissioner for the traffic area in which that person resides at the time when he applies for a licence ".

(8) In section 56(1) (records of licences, etc.), there shall be added at the end, the words " and shall allow the record to be inspected at all reasonable times by members of the public ".

(9) In section 60 (power to make regulations), in subsection (1)(f) after the word " by " there shall be inserted the words " , and the information to be displayed in or on " , and at the end there shall be added the words " or it is to be displayed ".

(10) In section 79 (vehicles excluded from regulation as private hire vehicles), for the words " or 42(1)" there shall be substituted the words " or (4) ".

(11) In section 87 (power to repeal specified sections of the Act), for the reference to " 50(6)(b)" there shall be substituted a reference to " 51(1)(b) ".

(12) In Schedule 1 (conditions affecting status or classification as a public service vehicle), paragraph 4 (parties of overseas visitors) shall cease to have effect.