Section 125: Vehicles authorised to be used under operator’s licence
310.Section 5(6) of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 (c.23) makes it unlawful for an operator to use a vehicle which is not specified in that operator’s licence unless notice of the vehicle, together with payment of the prescribed fee, has been made, within one month, to the traffic commissioner. Section 125 amends that subsection, and makes a consequential amendment to subsection (7), to provide for situations where no such fee is prescribed.
311.Section 125 also amends section 263 of the TA 2000, which would substitute section 5(6) of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 but has not yet been brought into force. Section 125:
inserts a new subsection (6A) to define the period within which an operator must provide information to the traffic commissioner about any new vehicle to be specified on their operator’s licence. This will enable the Secretary of State to prescribe a period of up to one month beginning with the day on which the vehicle was first in the lawful possession of the operator, or (if later) the day when the relevant operator’s licence came into force; and
makes a consequential amendment to the substituted section 5(6) to provide for situations where a fee is not required to be paid .
