The Public Service Vehicles (Enforcement Powers) Regulations 2009

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations(1)—

“the Act” means the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981;

“hiring agreement” and “vehicle-hire firm” have the same meaning as in section 66 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988(2);

“licence” means a PSV operator’s licence(3);

“owner”, as regards a vehicle which has been detained by virtue of regulation 3, means—

(a)

in the case of a vehicle which, at the time of its detention, was hired from a vehicle-hire firm under a hiring agreement, the vehicle-hire firm; or

(b)

in the case of a vehicle to which paragraph (a) does not apply, the person who can show to the satisfaction of the authorised person that, at the time the vehicle was detained, the person lawfully owned the vehicle (whether or not that person was the person in whose name the vehicle was registered under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994(4)); and

“vehicle” means a public service vehicle(5) adapted to carry more than 8 passengers.

(2) In these Regulations, any reference to a person being entitled to the return of contents or personal effects is a reference to a person who satisfies the requirements prescribed in regulation 7(2).

(1)

See also the definitions contained in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2A to the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 which apply to these Regulations.

(2)

1988 c. 53. Section 66(8) was amended by the Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), section 59 and Schedule 7. There are other amendments to section 66 but none is relevant.

(3)

The term “PSV operator’s licence” is defined in section 82(1) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981.

(4)

1994 c. 22.

(5)

The term “public service vehicle” is defined in section 1 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981.