Introductory Text
Operators' licences
1.Operators' licences
2.“Standard” and “restricted” licences
3.Temporary exemptions
Vehicles authorised to be used under a licence
4.Vehicles authorised to be used under operator's licence
5.Maximum numbers of vehicles
Operating centres
6.Operating centres to be specified in operators' licences
Applications for licences
7.Application for operators' licences
8.Notification of events subsequent to the making of an application
9.Publication by Department of notice of application for licence
10.Publication in locality affected of notice of application for licence
11.Objections to, and representations against, issue of operators' licences
Determination of applications
12.Determination of applications for operators' licences
12A.Requirements for standard licences
12B.Requirements for restricted licences
12C.Requirements for standard and restricted licences
12D.Further requirement for standard and restricted licences
12E.Professional competence for restricted licence holders
13.Determination where objections etc are made on environmental grounds
14.Issue of operators' licences
15.Duration of operators' licences
Variation of licences
16.Variation of operators' licences
17.Publication of notice of applications for variation in any locality affected
18.Objection to, and refusal of, applications to vary operators' licences on environmental grounds
19.Variation of licences: further provisions
Conditions of licences
20.Conditions of licences
Interim licences and interim variations
21.Interim operators' licences
22.Interim variations
Revocation etc of operators' licences
23.Revocation, suspension and curtailment of operators' licences
24.Revocation of standard licences
25.Disqualification
26.Revocation, disqualification, etc: supplementary provisions
Review of operating centres
27.Periods of review for operating centres
28.Power to remove operating centres on review
29.Power to attach conditions on review
Transfer of operating centres
30.Transfer of operating centres
Environmental matters
31.Determinations as to environmental matters
Inquiries and assessors
32.Power of Department to hold inquiries
33.Power of Department to appoint assessors
Review of decisions and appeals
34.Review of decisions
35.Rights of appeal in connection with operators' licences
Forgery, false statements, etc
36.Forgery of documents etc
37.False statements
Enforcement
38.Powers of entry
39.Power to seize documents etc
40.Obtaining of information etc by authorised persons
41.Obstruction of authorised persons
42.Exercise of enforcement powers: authorised persons and constables
43.Evidence by certificate
44.Detention of vehicle used without operator's licence
45.Prosecutions
Miscellaneous
46.Disclosure of information
47.Fees
48.Operators' licences not to be transferable
49.Certificates of qualification
50.Method of calculating weight of vehicles
51.Payment of grants
Application of this Act: special cases
52.Application of Act to holding companies and subsidiaries
53.Application of Act to partnerships
54.Application of Act to the Crown
55.Application of Act to harbours
Supplementary
56.Supplementary provision
57.Regulations
58.General interpretation
59.Amendments and repeals
60.Commencement
61.Short title
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
TRANSFER OF OPERATING CENTRES
Transfers in connection with new licences
1.(1) Where in the case of any application for an...
2.(1) The provisions of this paragraph have effect in relation...
Transfers in connection with the variation of licences
3.(1) Where in the case of an application for the...
4.(1) The provisions of this paragraph have effect in relation...
SCHEDULE 2
DETENTION OF VEHICLES USED WITHOUT OPERATOR'S LICENCE
Detention of property
1.Regulations may provide that where an authorised person has reason...
2.Regulations may make provision with respect to property detained by...
Immobilisation and removal
3.(1) Regulations may provide that an authorised person may, before...
4.(1) Regulations may provide that a person who, without being...
5.(1) Regulations may make provision for an authorised person to...
6.(1) Regulations may make provision for informing persons who may...
Return or disposal of vehicle
7.Regulations may make provision authorising a vehicle detained by virtue...
8.(1) Regulations shall make provision enabling the owner of a...
9.(1) Regulations shall make provision— (a) enabling the Department to...
10.(1) Regulations shall provide for an appeal to the Upper...
11.Regulations may provide that, if no application is made to...
Return or disposal of contents of vehicle
12.(1) Regulations may provide that the person specified in a...
Custody of property
13.Regulations shall provide that, subject to the powers of a...
Proceeds of sale
14.(1) Regulations shall provide for the proceeds of sale of...
Disputes
15.(1) Regulations may make provision about the proceedings to be...
Offences as to securing possession of property
16.(1) Regulations may provide that where— (a) a person makes...
Interpretation
17.(1) In this Schedule— “contents”, in relation to a goods...
SCHEDULE 3
AMENDMENTS
The Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 (c. 37)
1.In section 31(1) for “Parts II and III” substitute “...
2.In section 34(b) for “mark or permit” substitute “ or...
3.In section 37(2) for “Parts II and III” substitute “...
4.In section 43(1) for “Parts II and III” substitute “...
5.In section 45(g) for “Parts II and III” substitute “...
6.In section 45(i) for “Parts II and III” substitute “...
7.In section 46 for “Parts II and III” substitute “...
8.In section 46A(1) for “7, 10, 15, 15A, 28A and...
The International Road Haulage Permits Act 1975 (c. 46)
9.In section 1(8) for “Part III of the Transport Act...
The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (NI 1)
10.In Article 87(1) after “the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) Act...
11.In Schedule 1 at the end insert— Sections 38, 39...
The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 18)
12.In Article 74(1) for “Parts II to IV” substitute “...
13.In Article 111(2)— (a) for the words “Parts II and...
SCHEDULE 4
REPEALS