Transport Act 1968

Right to consent for continuance of existing service

2 If an existing operator applies to the Executive within the prescribed period and in the prescribed manner for the Executive's consent under this Schedule to the continuance by that operator of an existing service, the Executive shall, subject to paragraphs 3 and 14 of this Schedule, grant that consent and attach thereto the like conditions (and no others) as were attached to the relevant road service licence so far as those conditions relate to the carriage of persons who are both taken up and set down in the designated area in question.

3 Subject to paragraph 8 of this Schedule, the Executive may refuse an application under paragraph 2 thereof if the applicant has, during the period of six months ending with the appointed date, contravened any condition attached to the relevant road service licence.

4 Notwithstanding anything in section 19(2) of this Act, an existing operator who has duly applied for a consent under this Schedule in respect of any existing service may continue to provide that service as if the order under section 19(1) of this Act had not been made for any period—

(a) before he is notified of the grant or refusal of the consent; or

(b) while he is entitled under paragraph 9 of this Schedule to appeal against any condition attached to the consent or, if the consent is refused, against the refusal; or

(c) if such an appeal has been duly made, before the appeal is determined or withdrawn.