The Road Transport (International Passenger Services) Regulations 1984

Non-Community regulated regular and shuttle services by vehicles registered outside the United Kingdom

9.—(1) This Regulation applies to a public service vehicle registered outside the United Kingdom which is being used for the international carriage of passengers which is not Community regulated in so far as the vehicle—

(a) is being used to provide a service for the carriage of passengers of a description such as is mentioned in Article 1 or 2 of Council Regulation 117/66 (that is to say, a regular service, a special regular service or a shuttle service as defined in those Articles), and

(b) is so used by or on behalf of a person who is authorised, under the law of the country in which the vehicle is registered, to use the vehicle for the carriage of passengers on the journey in question or such parts thereof as are situated within that country.

(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.