The Public Service Vehicles (Registration Restrictions) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009

Procedure for making relevant representations

4.—(1) Relevant representations must—

(a) be made in writing;

(b) be served on the traffic commissioner who gave the notice no later than the date specified in accordance with regulation 3(2)(e); and

(c) state the reasons why the relevant authority or, as the case may be, the relevant operator believes that the effect of accepting the relevant application would be detrimental to the provision of local services under the quality partnership scheme.

(2) Relevant representations may, where the notice includes any of the information described in regulation 3(2)(d), be served by fax or electronic communication.

(3) The relevant authority or, as the case may be, the relevant operator must, at the same time as they submit relevant representations to the traffic commissioner, send a copy of those representations to—

(a) the person who made the relevant application; and

(b) the persons listed in the notice in accordance with regulation 3(2)(f).

(4) Where a relevant authority or, as the case may be, a relevant operator submits relevant representations after the date stipulated in the notice in accordance with regulation 3(2)(e), but before the traffic commissioner has made a decision in respect of the relevant application to which the relevant representations relate, the traffic commissioner may take those representations into account if satisfied that—

(a) there is an acceptable reason for the delay in submitting the representations; and

(b) taking the representations into account will not delay the making of the decision.