{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-regulations-1995/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-regulations-1995/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2869",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Restrictions on applications",
  "text": "(1) A traffic commissioner may decline to proceed with an application for a licence if it appears to him that the grant of that application would lead to a contravention of section 8(2).\n(2) A traffic commissioner may decline to proceed with an application if and so long as it appears to him that the application relates to any motor vehicle which is specified in an existing licence, and the grant of that application would lead to a contravention of section 5(8).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1)(2) substituted (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.1.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2869/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:58:53.159459+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."
}