The Public Service Vehicles (Traffic Commissioners: Publication and Inquiries) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Made: 26th November 2014

Laid before Parliament: 2nd December 2014

Coming into force: 30th December 2014

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1) and 60(1) and (2) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981[^f00001] and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 61(2) of the Act:

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Traffic Commissioners: Publication and Inquiries) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 30th December 2014.

Amendment of the Public Service (Traffic Commissioners: Publication and Inquiries) Regulations 1986

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• (1) Regulation 3(1)(a) of the Public Service Vehicles (Traffic Commissioners: Publication and Inquiries) Regulations 1986[^f00002] is amended as follows.

• (2) In sub-paragraph (iv), after “served;” insert “and”.

• (3) In sub-paragraph (v) delete the second occurrence of the word “and”.

• (4) Omit sub-paragraph (vi).

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Claire Perry — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Transport — 26th November 2014

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 5(1) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 requires every traffic commissioner to publish such information with regard to the exercise of the commissioner’s functions as may be prescribed.

The Public Service (Traffic Commissioners: Publication and Inquiries) Regulations 1986 prescribe the information to be published in accordance with the section. In particular, regulation 3(1) requires that a traffic commissioner publish specified information relating to local bus services registered under section 6 of the Transport Act 1985, which includes (sub-paragraph (a)(vi)) the types of vehicle to be used.

The present Regulations remove the reference to this type of information as this is no longer required to be provided to traffic commissioners with applications for registration of a local bus service (see regulation 4 of the Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/1671 as amended by S.I. 2004/10) and regulation 5 of the Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/219, as substituted by S.S.I. 2012/32)).

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 c.14; section 5(1) was substituted by section 3(2) of the Transport Act 1985 (c.67); section 60(1) was amended by section 134(2) of, and Schedule 8 to, that Act and section 60(2) was amended by section 134(2) of that Act.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1986/1629, to which there are amendments but none is relevant.