{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-bus-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-bus-regulations-2009/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/366",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Bus Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-bus-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1985 Act” means the Transport Act 1985;\n“the 1988 Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1988;\n“the 1986 Regulations” means the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986;\n“corresponding disc” means the disc issued with a permit, in accordance with regulation 10, bearing the same serial number as that permit;\n“corresponding permit” means the permit granted in accordance with regulation 9 which bears the same serial number as the disc issued with that permit;\n“holder” means a body to which a permit has been granted;\n“large bus” means a vehicle adapted to carry more than sixteen passengers;\n“permit” means a community bus permit; and\n“small bus” means a vehicle adapted to carry more than eight but not more than sixteen passengers.\n(2) For the purposes of regulations 3 and 4—\n(a) “full licence” and “Northern Ireland licence” have the meaning given in section 108 of the 1988 Act;\n(b) “PCV Community licence” and “passenger-carrying vehicle” have the meaning given respectively in sections 110 and 121 of the 1988 Act;\n(c) expressions relating to vehicle categories have the meaning given in regulation 4(2)(a) and (b) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999;\n(d) a person holds a valid full licence granted under Part 3 of the 1988 Act authorising the driving of motor vehicles included in any category or sub-category if that person is authorised to drive such vehicles under section 88(1) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c.52."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1078. There are amending instruments and those which are relevant to this instrument are footnoted to the relevant reference."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The term “community bus permit” is defined in section 22(1) of the Transport Act 1985."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "This definition was inserted by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989, section 7 and Schedule 3, paragraph 15(c)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "This definition was inserted by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989, section 7 and Schedule 3, paragraph 15(e) and amended by the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003, section 91(1) and Schedule 5, paragraphs 17 and 25(b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "The original section 110 was repealed by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989, sections 1 and 16 and Schedule 6 and the present section inserted by section 2(1) of, and Schedule 2 to, that Act. This definition was inserted by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974), regulation 2 and Schedule 1, paragraph 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "The original section 121 was repealed by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989, sections 1 and 16 and Schedule 6 and the present section inserted by section 2(1) of, and Schedule 2 to, that Act. This definition was amended by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974), regulation 2 and Schedule 1, paragraph 28(1) and (2)(d)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2864; there are amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "Section 88(1) was amended by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989, section 3(1) and (2); the Road Safety Act 2006, section 58(1); the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974), regulation 2 and Schedule 1, paragraph 1(1) and (2); and the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1420), regulations 2 and 3(1) and (2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/366/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:17:28.034880+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}