{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-act-1995/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-act-1995/section-23.json",
  "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": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Conditions attached to heavy goods vehicle licences as to use of operating centres.",
  "text": "(1) On issuing a heavy goods vehicle licence, or on varying such a licence on an application of which notice has been published under section 17(3), a traffic commissioner may attach to the licence such conditions as he thinks fit for preventing or minimising any adverse effects on environmental conditions arising from the use of a place in the traffic area to which the licence relates as an operating centre of the licence-holder.\n(2) The conditions which may be attached to a licence under this section shall be of such description as may be prescribed; and, without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provision, the descriptions which may be prescribed include conditions regulating—\n(a) the number, type and size of heavy goods vehicles which may at any one time be at any operating centre of the licence-holder ... for any prescribed purpose;\n(b) the parking arrangements to be provided for heavy goods vehicles at or in the vicinity of any such centre; and\n(c) the hours at which operations of any prescribed description may be carried on at any such centre.\n(3) On varying a heavy goods vehicle licence on an application of which notice has been published under section 17(3), a traffic commissioner may vary or remove any condition attached to the licence under this section.\n(4) A traffic commissioner shall not—\n(a) attach any condition such as is mentioned in this section to a heavy goods vehicle licence, or\n(b) vary in such manner as imposes new or further restrictions or requirements any condition attached to a heavy goods vehicle licence under this section,\nunless the applicant for the licence or (as the case may be) the licence-holder has first been given an opportunity to make representations to a traffic commissioner with respect to the effect on his business of the proposed condition or variation.\n(5) The traffic commissioner shall give special consideration to any representations made under subsection (4) in determining whether to attach the proposed condition or make the proposed variation.\n(6) Any person who contravenes any condition attached under this section to a licence of which he is the holder is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(1) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 41(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(1) substituted (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(2)(a) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 41(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(2)(a) repealed (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(2)(b) inserted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 41(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(3) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 41(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(4) substituted (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(4)(a) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 41(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(4)(b) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 41(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 23 heading inserted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 41(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/23/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:04.608535+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."
}