The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No 182

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT,ENGLAND AND WALES

The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2002

Made

31st January 2002

Laid before Parliament

1st February 2002

Coming into force

1st March 2002

The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6(3)(a), (8)(a) and (9)(a) of the Transport Act 1985(1), and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 61(2) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st March 2002.

(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only(3).

Amendment of the principal regulations

2.—(1) The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) Regulations 1986(4) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In Regulation 5(1)(a) for “42 days” substitute “56 days”.

(3) Regulation 9(2)(c) is revoked.

Transitional provisions

3.  Regulation 2(2) shall not apply in relation to any registration, or any application to vary or cancel a registration, in respect of which an application is made before the date of the coming into force of these Regulations.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Sally Keeble

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

31st January 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations further amend the Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) Regulations 1986 (“the principal Regulations”) in respect of England and Wales. The Regulations replace the 42 day period of notice, as prescribed by Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations for registering or applying to vary or cancel a registration of a local service, with a period of notice of 56 days. The Regulations further revoke Regulation 9(2)(c) of the principal Regulations, which permitted a registered service to be varied to a time either 5 minutes earlier or 5 minutes later than the registered time without the need to vary the prescribed particulars of the service.

(1)

1985 c. 67.

(2)

1981 c. 14; section 61(2) was amended by section 139(3) of the Transport Act 1985. Section 135(1) of the 1985 Act provides that section 61 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 is to have effect as if Parts I and II of the Transport Act 1985 were contained in that Act.

(3)

Competence to make regulations in respect of Scotland has been devolved by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(4)

S.I. 1986/1671; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1988/1879.