Regulation 1 Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicle Operators (Qualifications) Regulations 1999.

(2)

Subject to Regulation 6, these Regulations shall come into force on 1st October 1999.

(3)

In these Regulations “the Act" means the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 M1.

(4)

These Regulations do not extend to Northern Ireland.

Annotations

M1: 1981 c. 14; sections 14 and 17 were amended by section 3(5) of, and Part II of Schedule 2 to, the Transport Act 1985 (c. 67) and by sections 59(1) to (3), 62, 68 and 81 of, and Schedules 14 and 17 to, the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40), section 16 was amended by sections 38 and 46 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48) and section 139(2) of, and Schedules 2, 7 and 8 to, the Transport Act 1985, and Schedule 3 was amended by section 3(5) of, and Part II of Schedule 2 to, the Transport Act 1985 and by S.I. 1990/1851 and 1990/2641.