The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Amendment of section 12E (professional competence for restricted licence holders)

84.  In section 12E(1), for “as if for” to the end substitute—

“as if—

(a) the existing text of section 12B were renumbered subsection (1),

(b) in section 12B(1), in the words before paragraph (a), before “requirement of” there were inserted “first”, and

(c) after section 12B(1) there were inserted—

“(2) The second requirement of this section is that the applicant—

(a) if an individual, is professionally competent (as determined in such manner as may be set out in regulations made for the purposes of section 12A(3)(a)(i)), or

(b) if not an individual, or an individual who is not professionally competent, complies with section 12A(3)(b) as if the applicant were an applicant for a standard licence who is not an individual or is an individual who is not professionally competent.”.”.

(1)

Section 12E was inserted by S.I. 2012/257.