PART 6Amendment of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995

Amendment of section 8 (applications for operators’ licences)28

1

In section 8, for subsection (1) substitute—

1

1) A person who requires an operator’s licence must apply to a traffic commissioner.

2

After section 8(1) insert—

1A

A separate application must be made in relation to each traffic area in which there is—

a

if the application is for a heavy goods vehicle licence, a place to be specified in the licence as an operating centre for the purposes of sections 7(1) and 13C(5); or

b

if the application is for a light goods vehicle licence, located premises of the kind described in paragraph A1(2)(a) of Schedule 3.

3

In section 8(3)(b), before “containing” insert “in the case of an application for a heavy goods vehicle licence,”.