{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-passenger-vehicles-act-1981/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-passenger-vehicles-act-1981/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/14",
  "legislation_title": "Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-passenger-vehicles-act-1981",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Duration of licences.",
  "text": "(1) There shall be specified in every PSV operator’s licence the date on which the licence is to come into force .\n(2) Subject to its revocation or other termination under any provision of this Act or another statutory provision, a PSV operator’s licence shall continue in force indefinitely.\n(3) If the holder of a PSV operator’s licence requests a traffic commissioner to terminate it at any time, he or another traffic commissioner must, subject to subsection (4) below, comply with the request.\n(4) A traffic commissioner may refuse to comply with such a request if he or another traffic commissioner is considering taking action in respect of the licence under section 17(1) or (2) of this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 15(2)-(4) substituted (1.1.1996) for words from “and the date on which it is to expire” to the end by 1994 c. 40, s. 61, S.I. 1995/2835, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(3) substituted (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(4) substituted (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/14/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:23.739394+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."
}