{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-substances-in-harbour-areas-regulations-1987/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-substances-in-harbour-areas-regulations-1987/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/37",
  "legislation_title": "The Dangerous Substances in Harbour Areas Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dangerous-substances-in-harbour-areas-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Meaning of “operator”",
  "text": "(1) “Operator” means in relation to a road vehicle–\n(a) a person who holds, or is required by section 60 of the Transport Act 1968 to hold, a licence for the use of that vehicle for the carriage of goods on a road; or\n(b) where no such licence is required, the keeper of the vehicle.\n(2) “Operator” means in relation to any other mode of transport and in relation to a berth or a storage tank, the person who has for the time being day-to-day control of its running.\n(3) “Operator” means in relation to a portable tank (other than the carrying tank of a road tanker) which is being conveyed by road, either–\n(a) the owner of the tank or his agent, if that person–\n(i) has a place of business in Great Britain; and\n(ii) is identified as the owner of or, as the case may be, as the agent of the owner of the tank on the portable tank itself or on a document carried on the vehicle; or\n(b) if no person satisfies the requirements set out in sub-paragraph (a) above, the operator of the vehicle on which the portable tank is carried.\n(4) For the purpose of paragraph (3), a person to whom a portable tank is leased or hired shall be treated as the owner of that portable tank.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 73."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/37/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:34:11.536082+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."
}