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(1)For the purposes of this Act—
(a)regulations may make provision as to the person who is to be regarded as the operator of a vehicle which is made available by one holder of a PSV operator's licence to another under a hiring arrangement; and
(b)where regulations under paragraph (a) above do not apply, the operator of a vehicle is—
(i)the driver, if he owns the vehicle; and
(ii)in any other case, the person for whom the driver works (whether under a contract of employment or any other description of contract personally to do work).
(2)For the purposes of this Act the operator of a stage or express carriage service is the person, or each of the persons, providing the service; and for those purposes the operator of a vehicle being used as a stage or express carriage shall be taken to be providing the service thereby provided unless he proves that the service is or forms part of a service provided not by himself but by one or more other persons.
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