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15(1)The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 shall be amended as follows.E+W+S

(2)In section 7(5) (restriction on the right to appeal from road service licensing decisions of traffic commissioners in any case where the decision is certified to be necessary to secure conformity with a traffic regulation order), for the words from “traffic commissioners” to “the commissioners” there shall be substituted the words “traffic commissioner for the Metropolitan Traffic Area under section 42 of the Transport Act 1985 in the case of a decision of his with respect to a London local service licence if and so far as he certifies”.

(3)In section 10—

(a)in subsection (4) (restriction on the right to appeal from road service licensing decisions of traffic commissioners in any case where the decision is certified to be necessary to secure conformity with an experimental traffic order), for the words from “traffic commissioners” to “the commissioners” there shall be substituted the words “commissioner for the Metropolitan Traffic Area under section 42 of the Transport Act 1985 in the case of a decision of the commissioner with respect to a London local service licence if and so far as he certifies”; and

(b)after subsection (5) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(6)The reference in subsection (4) above to the Metropolitan Traffic Area shall be construed as if it were contained in the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981.

(4)In section 142(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “public service vehicle”, for the words “and ”stage carriage’ have the same meanings” there shall be substituted the words “has the same meaning”.

(5)In Schedule 9—

(a)in paragraph 13(3)(b), for the words “stage carriage” there shall be substituted the words “vehicle being used in the provision of a local service within the meaning of the Transport Act 1985”; and

(b)in paragraph 13(3)(c)(i), there shall be substituted for the words from “stage carriage”, where they first occur, to “1981” the words “local service (within the meaning of the Transport Act 1985)” and for the words “stage carriage”, where they next occur, the word “vehicle”.

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