The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Franchising Schemes Transitional Provisions and Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018

Short notice registration before a franchising scheme is in operation

5.—(1) Where an application for registration—

(a) relates to a service that—

(i) has one or more stopping places in a franchising scheme area;

(ii) is not an excepted service in every franchising scheme area in which it has a stopping place;

(iii) is not an exempt service;

(iv) is not one in relation to which registration restrictions have effect; and

(v) is to be provided under an agreement between a franchising authority or authorities and a person who undertakes to provide a service on terms which may include provision for the making of payments to that person by the authority or authorities, and

(b) is accepted by a traffic commissioner before section 123J(2) of the 2000 Act has effect in relation to the franchising scheme area or, where the service has a stopping place in more than one franchising scheme area, any one of those areas,

paragraphs (2) and (3) have effect.

(2) Section 6 of the1985 Act has effect with the following modifications—

(a) in subsection (2)(b), for the words “period of notice in relation to the registration has expired” substitute “period of notice beginning with the date the application is accepted by a traffic commissioner and ending with the date given to a traffic commissioner by the operator as the date on which the service will begin has expired”; and

(b) subsection (3) is omitted.

(3) Regulations 5(1) and 7(1)(a) of the 1986 Regulations do not apply.