PART IIE+W+S APPLICATIONS

Inspection of applicationsE+W+S

9.—(1) [F1Until an application has been determined, a traffic commissioner shall make available for inspection]

(a)to any person authorised to make the inspection by a local authority, a planning authority, chief officer of police or trade union or association specified in regulation 10, such part of the application (or the whole of it) as any such person in writing requests to see; and

(b)to any person who is, by virtue of section 12(4) or 19(2)(b) entitled to make representations in respect of the application, or a person authorised by such a person to make the inspection on his behalf, such part of the application as is, in the opinion of the traffic commissioner, relevant to the representation.

(2) A traffic commissioner F2... shall, during the currency of [F3a licence], make a copy of it available for inspection by any person who appears to the traffic commissioner to have reasonable grounds for making such an inspection.

(3) A traffic commissioner shall satisfy his obligation under paragraph (1) by—

(a)making the application or, as the case may be, part of it, available for inspection at [F4an office provided for the use of a traffic commissioner in relation to the traffic area to which the application relates]; or

(b)on prior receipt of his expenses in that behalf, by posting a copy of the application or, as the case may be, part of it, to the address given for that purpose by the person wanting to make the inspection.

(4) A traffic commissioner shall satisfy his obligation under paragraph (2) by—

(a)making a copy of the licence or, as the case may require, part of it, available for inspection at [F5an office provided for the use of a traffic commissioner in relation to the traffic area to which the licence relates]; or

(b)on prior receipt of his expenses in that behalf, by posting a copy of the licence or, as the case may require, part of it, to the address given for that purpose by the person requesting to make the inspection.