{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-act-northern-ireland-2010/section-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-act-northern-ireland-2010/section-49.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/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Certificates of qualification",
  "text": "(1) On an application made to the Department by a person wishing to engage in an undertaking established in a member State that involves the use of goods vehicles ..., the Department shall issue to the applicant a certificate (a “certificate of qualification”) as to such matters relating to the applicant's—\n(a) repute,\n(b) professional competence, or\n(c) financial standing (where relevant),\nas the Department is satisfied it may properly certify and as appear to the Department to be of assistance to the applicant in satisfying any requirements imposed by the law of the ... member State as regards the repute, professional competence and financial standing of persons engaged in such an undertaking established in that member State.\n(2) A certificate of qualification shall—\n(a) be in such form as the Department may prescribe;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) No certificate of qualification shall be issued before a prescribed fee has been paid to the Department.\n(4) The applicant shall give to the Department such information as it may reasonably require for the discharge of its duties in relation to the application.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 49(1) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 98(1)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 49(1) inserted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 98(1)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 49(1) inserted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 98(1)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 49(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/708), regs. 1(1), 3(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 49(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/708), regs. 1(1), 3(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 49(1) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 98(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 49(2)(b) omitted (17.3.2022) by virtue of The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 98(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 49(5) omitted (17.3.2022) by virtue of The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 98(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 49 in operation at 22.6.2012 for specified purposes by S.R. 2012/247, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 49 in operation at 1.7.2012 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2012/262, art. 2 (with arts. 4-6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2010/2/section/49",
    "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."
}