The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2004

Amendment of the requirements for applications

4.  For paragraphs (1) and (2) of regulation 3 (applications for registration) there are substituted—

“(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an application for registration of particulars of a service the area of operation of which covers more than one traffic area shall be made—

(a) in the case of a standard service, to the traffic commissioner for the area in which the service will start, and

(b) in the case of a flexible service, at the discretion of the operator either to the traffic commissioner for the area in which the greater part of the registered area of its operation is situated or to the traffic commissioner for the area in which the greater number of fixed stopping places are situated.

(2) An application for registration of particulars of a service the area of operation of which lies partly inside Greater London (and which, by virtue of sections 178(2) and 185(1) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999(1) requires a London service permit in respect of that part) shall be made to the traffic commissioner for the South-Eastern and Metropolitan Traffic Area”(2).

(1)

1999 c. 29.

(2)

As to the creation of the South-Eastern and Metropolitan Traffic Area see the Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) Order 1990 (S.I. 1991/288).