At any time when a vehicle would apart from section F11(4)of this Act be a public service vehicle, it shall continue to be treated as such for the purposes only of provisions contained in a local Act, in F2sections 10 to 23 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982F3, in the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998 or in Part II of the M1Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976, which regulate the use of private hire vehicles provided for hire with the services of a driver for the purpose of carrying passengers and exclude public service vehicles from the scope of that regulation.