15Applications for operators' licences.N.I.
[F1
(1)] A person applying to the Ministry for an operator's licence shall give such information as may reasonably be required to enable the Ministry to exercise the functions conferred on it by [F2 sections 28 and 28A], and in particular shall give information as to—
(a)the principal place of business, or proposed principal place of business, of the applicant, and the place or places from which he proposes to act as a road freight operator;
(b)the district within which, or the places between which, the applicant proposes to act, as a road freight operator;
(c)the goods which the applicant will normally carry for reward while he is acting as a road freight operator;
(d)any previous experience of the applicant as a person providing any facilities wheresoever for the carriage of goods for reward;
(e)any financial interest (whether past, subsisting or proposed, and whether as a partner or shareholder or as a result of a loan, guarantee or other financial transaction) of the applicant in the provision of any facilities wheresoever for the carriage of goods for reward, or any such interest of any other person in any business carried on by the applicant in providing such facilities;
F3[(f)particulars of any convictions during the five years preceding the making of the application, and at any time thereafter until the disposal of the application, of the applicant and of any person specified in the application in pursuance of section 28A(2) or (3);
(g)particulars of the financial resources which are, or are likely to be, available to the applicant;
(h)particulars of the professional competence qualifications of the applicant and of any person specified in the application in pursuance of section 28A(2) or (3);
(i)a statement indicating whether or not the applicant intends to use goods vehicles operated under the licence to carry goods by road for reward elsewhere than in the United Kingdom.]
F3[(2)Subsection (1)( f) and ( g) shall not apply in relation to an application for an operator's licence by a person who satisfies the Department that he is an exempt person.]