{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-act-northern-ireland-2010/section-12E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-act-northern-ireland-2010/section-12E.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2010/2",
  "legislation_title": "Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-act-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "section/12E",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12E",
  "heading": "Professional competence for restricted licence holders",
  "text": "As from such date as may be prescribed, section 12B shall have effect as if—\n(a) the existing text of section 12B were renumbered subsection (1),\n(b) in section 12B(1), in the words before paragraph (a), before “requirement of” there were inserted “first”, and\n(c) after section 12B(1) there were inserted—\n“(2) The second requirement of this section is that the applicant—\n(a) if an individual, is professionally competent (as determined in such manner as may be set out in regulations made for the purposes of section 12A(3)(a)(i)), or\n(b) if not an individual, or an individual who is not professionally competent, complies with section 12A(3)(b) as if the applicant were an applicant for a standard licence who is not an individual or is an individual who is not professionally competent.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 12-12E substituted for s. 12 (1.7.2012) by The Goods Vehicles (Qualifications of Operators) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/257), regs. 1(1), 17(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 12E substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 84"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2010/2/section/12E",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:12.074964+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."
}