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Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995

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21 Conditions for securing road safety.E+W+S

(1)On issuing an operator’s licence, or on varying such a licence under section 17, a traffic commissioner may attach to the licence such conditions as he thinks fit for preventing vehicles that are authorised to be used under it from causing danger to the public—

(a)at any point where vehicles first join a public road on their way from an operating centre of the licence-holder (or last leave a public road on their way to such an operating centre); and

(b)on any road (other than a public road) along which vehicles are driven between such a point and the operating centre.

(2)On varying an operator’s licence under section 17 a traffic commissioner may vary or remove any condition attached to the licence under this section.

(3)The traffic commissioner shall not—

(a)attach to an operator’s licence any condition such as is mentioned in this section, or

(b)vary in such manner as imposes new or further restrictions or requirements any condition attached to an operator’s licence under this section,

without first giving the applicant for the licence or (as the case may be) the licence-holder an opportunity to make representations to the commissioner with respect to the effect on his business of the proposed condition or variation.

(4)The traffic commissioner shall give special consideration to any representations made under subsection (3) in determining whether to attach the proposed condition or make the proposed variation.

(5)In this section “public road”—

(a)in relation to England and Wales, means a highway maintainable at the public expense for the purposes of the M1Highways Act 1980; and

(b)in relation to Scotland, has the same meaning as in the M2Roads (Scotland) Act 1984.

(6)Any person who contravenes any condition attached under this section to a licence of which he is the holder is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.

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