The Public Service Vehicle Operators (Qualifications) Regulations 1999

Professional competence E+W+S

4.—(1) In paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to the Act, for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(a) he has demonstrated that he possesses the requiste skills by passing a written examination organised by an approved body and is the holder of a certificate to that effect issued by that body; or”

(2) Paragraph 6 of that Schedule as so amended shall be renumbered as sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph and after that provision as so renumbered there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs—

“(2) The written examination mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) may be supplemented by an oral examination organised by the approved body in the form set out in Annex I to Council Directive No. 96/26/EC.

(3) The certificate mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) must take the form of the certificate set out in Annex Ia to that Directive.”

(3) In paragraph 7 of that Schedule—

(a) in the definition of “approved body", for the words from “Article 2(4)" to “21st June 1989" there shall be substituted the words “ Article 3(4) of Council Directive No. 96/26/EC ”; and

(b) in the definition of “the requisite skills", for the words from “skills in the subjects" to the end there shall be substituted the words “ knowledge corresponding to the level of training, for either national or international transport operations as the case may be, provided for in Annex I to that Directive in the subjects there listed. ”