The Transport Act 1980 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1981

10.—(1) In a case where on 1st April 1981 a public service vehicle examiner or a certifying officer has started, but not finished, the process of suspending a public service vehicle licence by virtue of section 133(1) of the 1960 Act, that process shall be at an end.

(2) In a case where immediately before 1st April 1981 a public service vehicle licence is suspended by virtue of section 133(1) of the 1960 Act that suspension shall be at an end but in its place there is hereby imposed as regards the vehicle to which the licence relates a prohibition under section 18(1)(b) by virtue of which the said vehicle is prohibited from being driven on a road for the purpose of being used as a stage, express or contract carriage.

(3) A prohibition imposed under paragraph (2) above shall come into force on 1st April 1981, except that in a case where the operation of the suspension which the prohibition replaces was, by virtue of section 133(1) of the 1960 Act, postponed until after 31st March 1981 the prohibition—

(a) shall not come into operation until the time when the suspension would have come into operation; and

(b) shall not operate after that time if, before that time, the operator of the vehicle to which the prohibition relates furnishes evidence to the satisfaction of the certifying officer or public service vehicle examiner who imposed the suspension that the defects have been, or are in the course of being, remedied.

(4) As regards a prohibition imposed under paragraph (2) above—

(a) the provisions of section 18(3) to (7) shall not apply; and

(b) section 18(8) shall apply as if the words “Subject to any subsisting direction under subsection (2)” were omitted.