2. The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981 are amended so that for Regulation 4 (Exemption for Crown and visiting force vehicles), there is substituted the following new Regulation:—
“Exemptions
4.—(1) Part IV of these Regulations does not apply to any vehicle in the public service of the Crown or in the service of a visiting force or headquarters.
(2) Parts III and IV of these Regulations do not apply to a motor vehicle belonging to a local education authority and which is from time to time used by that authority to provide free school transport whether the vehicle is being used wholly or partly to provide such transport or to provide a local bus service.
(3) Regulation 43 does not apply to a motor vehicle not belonging to a local education authority at any time when that vehicle is being used by that authority to provide free school transport, and to carry as the only fare-paying passengers pupils other than those for whom free school transport is provided.
(4) in this Regulation:—
(a)“free school transport”
(b)“pupil”
(c)references to a local education authority relate, as regards Scotland, to an education authority.”.
1944 c. 31.
1980 c. 44.