Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995

1 (1) In determining whether an individual is of good repute, a traffic commissioner may have regard to any matter but shall, in particular, have regard to—

(a) any relevant convictions of the individual or of his servants or agents; and

(b) any other information in his possession which appears to him to relate to the individual’s fitness to hold a licence.

(2) In determining whether a company is of good repute, a traffic commissioner shall have regard to all the material evidence including, in particular—

(a) any relevant convictions of the company or of any of its officers, servants or agents; and

(b) any other information in his possession as to the previous conduct of—

(i) any of the company’s officers, servants or agents, or

(ii) any of its directors, in whatever capacity,

if that conduct appears to him to relate to the company’s fitness to hold a licence.

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, the relevant convictions of any person are—

(a) any conviction of that person of an offence such as is mentioned in paragraph 5 of Schedule 2;

(b) any conviction of that person of an offence under the law of Northern Ireland or of the law of any country or territory outside the United Kingdom corresponding to an offence such as is mentioned in that paragraph;

(c) any conviction of that person of a serious offence within the meaning given in paragraph 3; and

(d) any conviction of that person of a road transport offence within the meaning given in paragraph 4.