[F1(1)A person may not use a place in a traffic area as an operating centre for vehicles authorised to be used under an operator’s licence issued to him in respect of that traffic area unless that place is specified as an operating centre of his in that licence.]
(2)Any person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
(3)In this Act “operating centre”, in relation to any vehicle, means the base or centre at which the vehicle is normally kept, and references to an operating centre of the holder of an operator’s licence are references to any place which is an operating centre for vehicles used under that licence.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 7(1) substituted (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)