Road Traffic Act 1960

160 Regulations for purposes of Part III

(1) The Minister may make regulations for any purpose for which regulations may be made under this Part of this Act and for prescribing anything which may be prescribed under this Part of this Act or the Twelfth Schedule thereto, and generally for the purpose of carrying this Part of this Act into effect, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, may make regulations with respect to any of the following matters—

(a) the forms to be used for the purposes of this Part of this Act;

(b) applications for and the issue of licences and of certificates of fitness;

(c) the issue of copies of licences and certificates in the case of licences or certificates lost or destroyed;

(d) the fees to be payable under this Part of this Act and the persons liable to pay the same;

(e) the documents, plates and marks to be carried by public service vehicles and the manner in which they are to be carried;

(f) the badges to be worn by drivers and conductors of public service vehicles;

(g) the custody, production and cancellation on revocation or expiration of licences and certificates of fitness, and the return to the commissioners or, as the case may be, the commissioner of police of the metropolis, of licences which have become void, or have been revoked, and as to the custody, production and return of badges and plates;

(h) the carriage of luggage and goods on public service vehicles;

(i) the safe custody and re-delivery or disposal of any property accidentally left in a public service vehicle and fixing the charges made in respect thereof;

(j) the equipment to be carried by public service vehicles;

(k) for providing that any provisions of this Part of this Act shall in relation to public service vehicles brought into Great Britain for the purpose of carrying persons making only a temporary stay therein, have effect subject to such modifications and adaptations as may be prescribed;

and different regulations may be made as respects different classes or descriptions of public service vehicles or as respects the same class or description of public service vehicles in different circumstances.

(2) In this Part of this Act and the Twelfth Schedule thereto " prescribed" means prescribed by regulations and " regulations " means regulations made under this section.