PART 2Determination of Relevant Operator and Admissible Objection, Decisions and Referrals to a Traffic Commissioner
Assessors to assist traffic commissioners14.
(1)
This regulation applies where a traffic commissioner, in considering any matter referred under regulation 12, is required to determine whether the ground specified in regulation 8(3)(b) has been satisfied.
(2)
In making such a determination the traffic commissioner may be assisted by an assessor selected from a panel of persons appointed by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 17A of the 1981 Act16 (assessors to assist traffic commissioners).
(3)
Where a traffic commissioner seeks the assistance of a person described in paragraph (2), that person must be paid such remuneration as may be determined by the Secretary of State.