C1Part II Driver Information Systems
Licensing for driver information systems
11 Sanctions for operating outside licence area or for breach of licence conditions.
1
The Secretary of State may, subject to subsection (2) below, at any time revoke or suspend an operator’s licence on the ground that—
a
the licence holder’s operations have extended beyond the area in which the licence authorised him to operate, or
b
there has been a breach of any condition of the licence.
2
The Secretary of State shall not revoke or suspend a licence for breach of a condition unless he is satisfied that owing to—
a
the frequency of the breach of conditions,
b
the intentional nature of the breach, or
c
the danger to the public involved in the breach,
the licence should be revoked or suspended.
3
Where the Secretary of State revokes a licence he may, if it appears to him to be expedient to do so, direct that the revocation is a provisional revocation which will not take effect until a future date; and where he gives such a direction he may either make final the revocation or withdraw it.
4
An operator’s licence suspended under the foregoing provisions of this section shall during the time of suspension be of no effect.
5
Subject to subsection (6) below, if a condition attached to an operator’s licence is broken, the holder of the licence commits an offence.
6
It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (5) above to prove that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid a breach of that condition.
7
A person guilty of an offence under subsection (5) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
Pt. II (ss. 8–15) excluded by S.I. 1990/865, art. 2(1)(2)