{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-hire-vehicles-london-operators-licences-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-hire-vehicles-london-operators-licences-regulations-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3146",
  "legislation_title": "The Private Hire Vehicles (London) (Operators' Licences) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-hire-vehicles-london-operators-licences-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1998 Act” means the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998;\n“application” means an application for the grant or variation of a licence;\n“business name” means a name which if used by a person for the purpose of carrying on business would make him subject to the Business Names Act 1985;\n“CB apparatus” means wireless telegraphy apparatus known as “Citizens' Band” which is designed or adapted, or has facilities permitting its adaptation, for the purpose of transmitting spoken messages on the frequency band 26.1 MHz to 28 MHz;\n“certificate of insurance” and “certificate of security” shall be construed in accordance with section 147 of the Road Traffic Act 1988;\n“Community licence” and “Northern Ireland licence” have the same meanings as in section 108(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988;\n“driving licence” means a licence to drive a motor car granted under Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (other than a provisional licence), or a licence authorising the driving of a motor car by virtue of section 99A(1) or 109(1) of that Act (Community licences and Northern Ireland licences);\n“firm” has the same meaning as in section 4 of the Partnership Act 1890;\n“licence” means a London PHV operator’s licence;\n“licensing authority” means the person appointed under section 24(1) of the 1998 Act for the purpose of exercising the functions of the Secretary of State under that Act or, where no such appointment has been made, the Secretary of State;\n“MOT test certificate” means, in relation to a vehicle to which section 47 of the Road Traffic Act 1998 applies, a test certificate issued in respect of the vehicle as mentioned in subsection (1) of that section;\n“national insurance number” has the same meaning as in regulation 1(2) of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979;\n“officer”, in relation to a body corporate, shall be construed in accordance with section 744 of the Companies Act 1985;\n“operator” means a London PHV operator and in relation to a licence means the operator to whom the licence was granted;\n“registered keeper” means, in relation to a vehicle, the person in whose name the vehicle is registered under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994;\n“registration mark” means, in relation to a vehicle, the mark assigned to the vehicle in accordance with section 23 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994;\n“variation” means a variation of a licence at the operator’s request under section 18 of the 1998 Act; and\n“wireless telegraphy apparatus” shall be construed in accordance with section 19(1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1988 c. 52; section 99A was inserted, and section 108 was amended, by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974) and section 99A was amended by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1420). Sections 108 and 109 were amended by section 7 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1890 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 254 of, and Schedule 21 to, the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29) (“the 1999 Act”) provide for some of the functions of the Secretary of State under the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998 (c. 34) to be transferred to Transport for London. Section 415(5) of the 1999 Act provides that the transferee shall be substituted for the transferor in any instruments which relate to any of the functions transferred and are made or commenced before the transfer takes effect."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/591; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1985 c. 6; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1994 c. 22; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1949 c. 54; section 19(1) was amended by section 57(2) of, and Schedule 6 to, the Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 (c. 46)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3146/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:10:04.022144+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."
}