{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-501/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-501/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/501",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2019/501 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 March 2019 on common rules ensuring basic road freight and road passenger connectivity with regard to the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the Union (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-501",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Right to conduct regular and special regular coach and bus services",
  "text": "1. United Kingdom coach and bus service operators may, under the conditions laid down in this Regulation, conduct permitted carriage of passengers by coach and bus constituting regular and special regular services.\n2. United Kingdom coach and bus service operators must be in possession of an authorisation issued prior to the date of application of this Regulation in accordance with Articles 6 to 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 to conduct permitted regular and special regular coach and bus services for hire and reward.\n3. The authorisations that remain valid under paragraph 2 of this Article may continue to be used for the purposes specified in paragraph 1 of this Article if they have been renewed under the same terms and conditions, or altered in terms of stops, fares or schedule, and subject to the rules and procedures of Articles 6 to 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 for a period of validity not extending beyond 31 December 2019.\n4. Permitted carriage of passengers by coach and bus carried out by natural or legal persons established in the United Kingdom for non-commercial and non-profit-making purposes may be conducted without a United Kingdom licence, within the meaning of Article 2(7), being required, where:\n(a) the transport activity is only an ancillary activity for that natural or legal person; and\n(b) the vehicles used are the property of that natural or legal person or have been obtained by that person on deferred terms or have been the subject of a long-term leasing contract, and are driven by a member of the staff of the natural or legal person, by the natural person himself, or by personnel employed by, or put at the disposal of, the undertaking under a contractual obligation.\nThose transport operations shall be exempt from any system of authorisation within the Union, provided the person carrying out the activity is in possession of a national authorisation issued prior to the date of application of this Regulation in accordance with Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009.\n5. A change of vehicle, or an interruption of carriage to enable part of a journey to be made by another means of transport, shall not affect the application of this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replacement",
      "affecting": "eur/2019/1795",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1795 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 2019 amending Regulations (EU) 2019/501 and (EU) 2019/502 as regards their periods of application (Text with EEA relevance)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/501/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:30.015895+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."
}