{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicle-operators-qualifications-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicle-operators-qualifications-regulations-1999/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2431",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Service Vehicle Operators (Qualifications) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicle-operators-qualifications-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Professional competence",
  "text": "(1) In paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to the Act, for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(a) he has demonstrated that he possesses the requiste skills by passing a written examination organised by an approved body and is the holder of a certificate to that effect issued by that body; or”\n(2) Paragraph 6 of that Schedule as so amended shall be renumbered as sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph and after that provision as so renumbered there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs—\n“(2) The written examination mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) may be supplemented by an oral examination organised by the approved body in the form set out in Annex I to Council Directive No. 96/26/EC.\n(3) The certificate mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) must take the form of the certificate set out in Annex Ia to that Directive.”\n(3) In paragraph 7 of that Schedule—\n(a) in the definition of “approved body\", for the words from “Article 2(4)\" to “21st June 1989\" there shall be substituted the words “ Article 3(4) of Council Directive No. 96/26/EC ”; and\n(b) in the definition of “the requisite skills\", for the words from “skills in the subjects\" to the end there shall be substituted the words “ knowledge corresponding to the level of training, for either national or international transport operations as the case may be, provided for in Annex I to that Directive in the subjects there listed. ”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2431/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:32.158176+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."
}