(1)An application for an operator’s licence shall be made to the traffic commissioner for each area in which, if the licence is issued, the applicant will have an operating centre or operating centres.
(2)Accordingly, a person may hold separate operators’ licences in respect of different areas; but he shall not at any time hold more than one such licence in respect of the same area.
(3)A person applying for an operator’s licence shall give to the traffic commissioner a statement—
(a)containing such particulars as the commissioner may require of the motor vehicles proposed to be used under the licence and stating the number and type of any trailers proposed to be used under the licence; and
(b)containing such particulars as the commissioner may require of each place in the area of the commissioner which will be an operating centre of the applicant if the licence is issued.
(4)A person applying for an operator’s licence shall also give to the traffic commissioner any further information which the commissioner may reasonably require for the discharge of his duties in relation to the application, and in particular shall, if required by the commissioner to do so, give to him any of the information specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2.
(5)Without prejudice to subsection (4), a person applying for an operator’s licence shall also, if required by the traffic commissioner to do so, give to him such particulars as he may require with respect to the use which the applicant proposes to make, for vehicles used under the licence, of any place referred to in the statement under subsection (3)(b).
(6)Any statement, information or particulars to be given to a traffic commissioner under this section shall be given in such form as the commissioner may require.