2012 No. 247 (C. 22)

Road Traffic And Vehicles

The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (2010 Act) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012
Made
21st June 2012
The Department of the Environment makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 60(2) of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 .

Citation and interpretation
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1
This Order may be cited as the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (2010 Act) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012.
2
In this Order “the Act” means the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010.

Appointed day
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The day appointed for the coming into operation of the provisions of the Act specified in the Schedule for the purpose of enabling the Department to make Regulations is 22 nd June 2012.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 21 st June 2012
Iain Greenway
A senior officer of the
Department of the Environment
SCHEDULE

Provisions coming into operation on 22 nd June 2012 for the purposes only of making Regulations
Article 2
Provisions of the Act | Subject Matter
Section 1 | Operators’ licences
Section 4 | Vehicles authorised to be used under operator’s licence
Section 7 | Application for operators’ licences
Section 8 | Notification of events subsequent to the making of an application
Section 9 | Publication by Department of notice of application for licence
Section 10 | Publication in locality affected of notice of application for licence
Section 11 | Objections to, and representations against, issue of operators’ licences
Section 12 | Determination of applications for operators’ licences
Section 13 | Determination where objections etc are made on environmental grounds
Section 16 | Variation of operators’ licences
Section 17 | Publication of notice of applications for variation in any locality affected
Section 18 | Objection to, and refusal of, applications to vary operators’ licences on environmental grounds
Section 20 | Conditions of licences
Section 27 | Periods of review for operating centres
Section 28 | Power to remove operating centres on review
Section 31 | Determinations as to environmental matters
Section 32 | Power of Department to hold inquiries
Section 34 | Review of decisions
Section 47 | Fees
Section 48 | Operators’ licences not to be transferable
Section 49 | Certificates of qualification
Section 52 | Application of Act to holding companies and subsidiaries
Section 53 | Application of Act to partnerships
Schedule 1 and section 30 so far as it relates to it | Transfer of operating centres
Schedule 2 and section 44 so far as it relates to it | Detention of vehicle used without operator’s licence

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings the provisions of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (“the Act”) listed in the Schedule into operation on 22 nd June 2012 to enable the Department to make Regulations under the Act.
2010 c. 2