{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pedicab-operators-london-regulations-2026/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pedicab-operators-london-regulations-2026/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/135",
  "legislation_title": "The Pedicab Operators (London) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pedicab-operators-london-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "London pedicab operator’s licence: qualifying criteria",
  "text": "(1) TfL may grant an operator’s licence to an applicant if it is satisfied that—\n(a) the applicant and the associated persons to the applicant, where their interest in the applicant requires them to live and work in the United Kingdom, are fit and proper persons to hold an operator’s licence; and\n(b) the applicant and those associated persons to the applicant are not disqualified by reason of their immigration status from holding an operator’s licence.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b), a person is disqualified by reason of the person’s immigration status from holding an operator’s licence if the person is subject to immigration control and—\n(a) the person has not been granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom; or\n(b) the person’s leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom—\n(i) is invalid;\n(ii) has ceased to have effect (whether by reason of curtailment, revocation, cancellation, passage of time or otherwise); or\n(iii) is subject to a condition preventing the person from being an operator.\n(3) Where a person is on immigration bail within the meaning of Part 1 of Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016—\n(a) the person is to be treated as if the person had been granted leave to enter the United Kingdom; but\n(b) any condition as to the person’s work in the United Kingdom to which the person’s immigration bail is subject is to be treated for those purposes as a condition of leave.\n(4) A person is subject to immigration control if under the Immigration Act 1971 the person requires leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom.\n(5) In determining for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b) whether an applicant or associated person to an applicant is disqualified by reason of their immigration status from the applicant holding an operator’s licence, TfL must have regard to any guidance issued by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2016 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 77."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/135/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:06:09.520223+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."
}