{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/261",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-licensing-of-operators-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Return of licences and discs",
  "text": "(1) If the licence-holder ceases to use under the licence any motor vehicle specified in the licence the licence-holder shall within 21 days beginning with the date of ceasing to use the vehicle or vehicles notify the Department, and return to the Department the licence for variation and the disc relating to the vehicle.\n(2) If a licence is varied under section 16, 28, 29 or 34 the licence-holder shall, when required by the Department, return to the Department—\n(a) the licence; and\n(b) if the number of motor vehicles specified in the licence has been reduced, the disc relating to any vehicle no longer specified in the licence.\n(3) If a licence is revoked, surrendered, suspended, curtailed or terminated for any other reason, or if the Department has given direction in respect of a licence under section 23(2), the licence-holder shall on or before the date specified in a notice to that effect, send or deliver to the Department—\n(a) the licence; and\n(b) the disc relating to any motor vehicle which the Department may specify,\nfor cancellation, retention during the time of suspension, or alteration as the case may be.\n(4) The notice referred to in paragraph (3) shall be delivered personally to the licence-holder or sent to that person by recorded delivery service at the address shown in that person’s application or last notified in accordance with regulation 23.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 26 in operation at 1.7.2012, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/261/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:15:01.885675+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."
}