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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-act-1995commencement-and-transitional-provisions-order-1995/schedule/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-act-1995commencement-and-transitional-provisions-order-1995/schedule/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2181",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995(Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-act-1995commencement-and-transitional-provisions-order-1995",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Publication of notices of applications for the variation of licences made before the appointed day",
  "text": "(1) Section 18 of the 1995 Act (which replaces section 69E of the 1968 Act in part) shall not have effect in relation to an application made before the appointed day for the variation of a licence unless notice of the application has been (or has the effect of having been) published under section 17(3) of the 1995 Act.\n(2) Section 18 of the 1995 Act shall have effect in relation to an application made before the appointed day of which notice has been published as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above as if—\n(a) for subsections (1) and (2) there were substituted the following subsection—\n“(1) The traffic commissioner to whom an application for the variation of an operator’s licence is made shall refuse the application without considering the merits unless he is satisfied that subsection (3) has been complied with in respect of each locality affected by the application.”; and\n(b) subsection (4) were omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2181/schedule/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:03:37.153821+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."
}