The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009

Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 878

Public Passenger Transport, England And Wales

The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009

Made

2nd April 2009

Laid before Parliament

8th April 2009

Coming into force

3rd May 2009

The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 52(1)(a) and 60(1)(e) and (1A) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(1) and by sections 126(1) and 134 of the Transport Act 1985(2); and by virtue of The Department for Transport (Fees) Order 2009(3).

Representative organisations have been consulted in accordance with section 61(2) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(4).

(1)

1981 c.14 (in these footnotes called “the 1981 Act”). Relevant amendments to sections 52(1)(a) and 60(1) of the 1981 Act were made by the Transport Act 1985 (c.67) (in these footnotes called “the 1985 Act”) and by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c.40) (in these footnotes called “the 1994 Act”), as follows. Section 52(1)(a) of the 1981 Act was amended by paragraphs 4(1) and 4(14) of Part II of Schedule 2 of the 1985 Act; section 60(1) of the 1981 Act was amended by paragraphs 4(1) and 4(18) of Part II of Schedule 2 of the 1985 Act and words were omitted from section 60(1) of the 1981 Act by Schedule 8 of the 1985 Act. Section 52(1)(a) of the 1981 Act was further amended by section 66(2) of the 1994 Act and section 60(1) (e) of the 1981 Act was substituted by section 66(5) of the Act. Section 60(1A) of the 1981 Act was inserted by section 134(2) (b) of the 1985 Act. For the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”, see section 60(2) of the 1981 Act, as amended by the 1985 Act, section 134(1) and (2)(c).

(2)

1985 c.67. Section 126(1) was amended by section 52(1) of the Local Transport Act 2008 (c.26)

(3)

S.I. 2009/711, which was made under the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c.51), section 102. The relevant provisions in S.I. 2009/711 are regulation 4(4) and paragraphs 14 to 17 of Schedule 1, together with regulation 9 and Schedule 2.

(4)

By virtue of section 135 of the 1985 Act, section 61 of the 1981 Act has effect as if Part I of the 1985 Act were contained in the 1981 Act. Section 61(2) of the 1981 Act was amended by the 1985 Act, section 139(3) and Schedule 8.