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(1)[F1Subject to section 69E of this Act]On the application of the holder of an operator’s licence, the licensing authority by whom the licence was granted may at any time while it is in force vary the licence by directing—
(a)that additional vehicles be specified therein, that the maximum number of trailers or of motor vehicles specified therein under paragraph (b) or (c) of section 61(1) of this Act be increased, or, if the licence does not permit the addition of authorised vehicles under the said paragraph (c), that it shall so permit and that a maximum be specified under that paragraph accordingly; or
(b)that vehicles specified therein be removed therefrom or that any such maximum as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection be reduced; or
[F2(c)that an alteration or addition be made in or to any of the matters specified for the purposes of the M1Goods Vehicles (Operators Licences, Qualifications and Fees) Regulations 1984 in a standard licence as defined in Regulations 3(2) of those Regulations]
(d)that an alteration be made in any condition attached to the licence under section 66 of this Act or that any such condition be removed;
[F3or
(e)that a restricted licence as defined in Regulation 3(2) of the said Regulations of 1984 be converted into a standard licence as defined in that Regulation, or vice versa.]
(2)A person applying for a direction under this section shall give to the licensing authority such information as he may reasonably require for the discharge of his duties in relation to the application.
(3)Any information or particulars to be given to a licensing authority under subsection (2) of this section shall be given in such form as the authority may require.
(4)Except in the following cases, that is to say—
(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4
(b)where the application is for a direction under subsection (1)(b) of this section; or
[F5(bb)where an application is for a direction as referred to in subsection (1)(c) or (e) of this section; or]
(c)where the licensing authority is satisfied that the application is of so trivial a nature that it is not necessary that an opportunity should be given for objecting to it,
the licensing authority shall publish notice of any application under this section in the manner provided for the publication of notices under subsection (1) of [F6section 63 of this Act]; and where notice of the application is published in pursuance of this subsection the other provisions of the said section 63 and the provisions of section 64 of this Act shall, so far as applicable and subject to any necessary modifications, apply to that application as they apply to an application for the grant of an operator’s licence of which notice is published under subsection (1) of the said section 63.
(5)If an applicant under this section so requests, the licensing authority may, pending the determination of the application, give an interim direction under this section, that is to say, a direction expressed to continue in force only until the application, and any appeal arising out of it, have been disposed of; and a request for such a direction shall not for the purposes of subsection (4) of this section be treated as an application under this section.
Textual Amendments
F1Words inserted by Transport Act 1982 (c. 49, SIF 126), Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 3(a)
F2S. 68(1)(c) inserted by S.I. 1984/176. reg. 36(2)(a) as amended by S.I. 1986/666 reg. 8(a)
F3Word “or" and s. 68(1)(e) added by S.I. 1984/176, reg. 36(2)(b)
F4S. 68(4)(a) repealed by Transport Act 1982 (c. 49, SIF 126), Sch. 6
F5S. 68(4)(bb) inserted by S.I. 1984/176, reg. 36(2A) (as inserted by S.I. 1986/666, reg. 8(b))
F6Words substituted by Transport Act 1982 (c. 49, SIF 126), Sch. 6
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