The Goods Vehicles (Community Authorisations) Regulations 1992

Purpose and interpretation

2.—(1) These Regulations implement the Council Regulation.

(2) In these Regulations—

“actual holder”, in relation to a person established as a haulier in Great Britain, has the meaning which it bears in regulation 32A(1) of the 1984 Regulations;

“Community authorisation” means a Community authorisation issued under the Council Regulation;

“competent authority” has the meaning given by regulation 4 of these Regulations;

“the Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 881/92 of 26th March 1992 on access to the market in the carriage of goods by road within the Community to or from the territory of a member State or passing across the territory of one or more member States;

“the First Council Directive” means the First Council Directive of 23 July 1962 on the establishment of common rules for certain types of carriage of goods by road(1);

“operating centre” has the meaning which it bears in section 92(1) of the Transport Act 1968(2);

“operator’s licence” means an operator’s licence within the meaning of section 60(1) of the Transport Act 1968 or section 14 of the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967(3);

“standard operator’s licence” means an operator’s licence which is a standard licence within the meaning of regulation 3(2) of the 1984 Regulations;

“the 1984 Regulations” means the Goods Vehicles (Operators' Licences, Qualifications and Fees) Regulations 1984(4); and

“traffic area” means a traffic area constituted for the purposes of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(5),

and, subject thereto, expressions used which are also used in the Council Regulation have the meaning which they bear in that Regulation.

(1)

O.J. No. L 70, 6.8.1962, p.2005/62, as amended by Directives of 2.4.1972, 11.6.1972, and Directives 426/72 (EEC), 149/74 (EEC), 158/77 (EEC), 175/78 (EEC), 49/80 (EEC), 50/82 (EEC), 572/83 (EEC) and 647/84 (EEC), and Regulation (EEC) No. 881/92.

(2)

1968 c. 73; the definition of centre was amended by 1982 c. 49, section 52(1).

(3)

1967 c. 37 (N.I.).

(4)

S.I. 1984/176; regulation 3(2) was amended by S.I. 1986/1391, and regulation 32A(1) inserted by S.I. 1991/2239.

(5)

1981 c. 14, as amended by S.I. 1983/1714 and 1991/288.