The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Franchising Schemes Transitional Provisions and Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 No. 406

Effect of a franchising scheme on an application for registration, variation or cancellation

6.  Where an application for registration, or the variation or cancellation of a registration, is received by a traffic commissioner before section 123J(2) of the 2000 Act has effect in relation to any franchising scheme area in which the service to which the application relates has a stopping place, and the service—

(a) is not an excepted service in every franchising scheme area in which it has a stopping place; and

(b) is not an exempt service,

a traffic commissioner must not accept that application after section 123J(2) has effect in any such area.