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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-act-1995/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/23",
  "legislation_title": "Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-act-1995",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate Part V of the Transport Act 1968 and related provisions concerning the licensing of operators of certain goods vehicles.\n[19th July 1995]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act modified (1.1.1996) by S.I. 1995/2181, art. 3, Sch. para. 12(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (26.9.1996) by S.I. 1996/2186, reg. 31(1)(2), Sch. 6 Pts. I, II"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act: transfer of functions (1.9.2009) by Transfer of Functions (Transport Tribunal and Appeal Panel) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1885), arts. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act modified by S.I. 1995/2869, reg. 30(3), Sch. 2 (as amended (5.10.2017) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/874), regs. 1(1), 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act modified by S.I. 1995/2869, reg. 33A, Sch. 3A Pt. 1 (as inserted (1.10.2023) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Exemptions and Modifications) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/805), regs. 1, 6, 8) (as amended (19.8.2024) by S.I. 2024/830, regs. 1(1), 2(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Act does not extend to Northern Ireland,see s. 62(3), but the amendments specified in Sch. 7 and the repeals and revocations specified in Sch. 8 have the same extent as the enactments and instruments to which they relate, see s. 62(2)"
    }
  ],
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  "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."
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