SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 21 The Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998

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(1)

Section 32 (regulations) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1) (purpose for which regulations may be made) after “this Act”, in both places, there shall be inserted “ (other than section 37) ”.

(3)

In subsection (3) (power to make regulations to be exercisable by statutory instrument subject to negative parliamentary procedure) for “conferred by this Act” there shall be substituted “ conferred on the Secretary of State by section 37 ”.

(4)

At the end of the section there shall be added—

“(4)

Any power of the licensing authority to make regulations under this Act includes power to vary or revoke previous regulations made under this Act (other than regulations made under section 37).

(5)

Subsection (4) applies notwithstanding that the previous regulations in question were made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument.

(6)

The licensing authority shall secure that any regulations made under this Act by the authority are printed and published.

(7)

A fee may be charged for the sale of regulations printed and published under subsection (6).”