The Road Transport (International Passenger Services) Regulations 1984

Certain occasional services by vehicles not registered in a member State, an ASOR State or an ECMT State

12.—(1) This Regulation applies to a public service vehicle—

(a) which is registered in the territory of a State which is not a member State, an ASOR State or an ECMT State;

(b) which is brought into Great Britain for the purpose of carrying passengers who are making only a temporary stay therein or are in transit, being passengers who commenced their journey from the state in the territory of which the vehicle is registered or, as the case may be, from Northern Ireland; and

(c) which remains in Great Britain for a period not exceeding three months from the date of its entry therein,

in so far as the vehicle—

(i) is used to provide a service for the carriage of passengers which is not Community regulated but which is of a description such as is mentioned in Article 3(1)(a), (b) or (c) of Regulation No. 117/66, and

(ii) is so used by or on behalf of a person who is authorised, under the law in force in the state in the territory of which it is registered to use the vehicle for the carriage of passengers on the journey in question or such parts thereof as lies within the territory of that state.

(2) The provisions of the Act of 1981 shall, in relation to a vehicle to which this Regulation applies, have effect as if sections 6, 18, 22 and 30 of the Act of 1981 were omitted and as if for section 12 of the Act of 1981 there were substituted the section set out in Schedule 2.