The Public Service Vehicles (Conduct of Drivers, Inspectors, Conductors and Passengers) Regulations 1990

The conduct of drivers, inspectors and conductors

5.—(1) A driver and a conductor shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure the safety of passengers who are on, or who are entering or leaving, the vehicle.

(2) A driver, inspector and conductor shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the provisions of these Regulations relating to the conduct of passengers are complied with.

(3) A driver, inspector or conductor–

(a) shall, if so requested by a constable or other person having reasonable cause, give his name, the person by whom he is employed and, in the case of a driver, particulars of the licence by virtue of which he drives the vehicle; and

(b) shall not smoke in or on a vehicle except in one of the circumstances specified in paragraph (4).

(4) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (3)(b) are that–

(a) the vehicle is not available for the carriage of passengers and the person concerned is in or on any part of the vehicle where smoking by passengers is not prohibited by regulation 6(1)(d); or

(b) the vehicle is hired as a whole and the person concerned has the permission of the operator and the hirer.

(5) A driver shall, when picking up or setting down passengers, stop the vehicle as close as is reasonably practicable to the left or near side of the road.

(6) A conductor shall not, while the vehicle is in motion and without reasonable cause, distract the driver’s attention or obstruct his vision.