{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicles-lost-property-regulations-1978/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicles-lost-property-regulations-1978/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/1684",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Service Vehicles (Lost Property) Regulations 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicles-lost-property-regulations-1978",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Safe custody and recording of property",
  "text": "(1) An operator's representative to whom any property is delivered in pursuance of the 1934 Regulations or these Regulations, shall either (a) within 48 hours deliver it to the operator in the state in which he received it, together with particulars of the property the circumstances in which it was found and the name of the conductor into whose possession it first came, or (b) forward to the operator such particulars as aforesaid and the address of the place at which he has custody of the property.\n(2) Any operator or any operator's representative to whom any property is delivered under these Regulations or the 1934 Regulations shall keep it in safe custody until it is returned to its owner or otherwise disposed of in pursuance of these Regulations:\nProvided that:—\n(a) official documents, including licences passports and alien's identity books, shall wherever practicable be returned forthwith to the appropriate government department, local authority or other body or person responsible for issuing or for controlling or dealing with them;\n(b) where the name and address of a person who may be the owner of any property other than the documents referred to in the preceding proviso are readily ascertainable, the operator or his representative shall forthwith notify him that the property is in his possession and may be claimed in accordance with these Regulations.\n(3) An operator to whom particulars of any property are given under paragraph (1) of this Regulation or Regulation 6 of the 1934 Regulations shall, whether or not the property is delivered to him, keep for a period of not less than twelve months a record of such particulars and the ultimate disposal of each item of property under these Regulations or the 1934 Regulations, and such record shall at all reasonable times during the said period be available for inspection by a constable or any person authorised in that behalf by the traffic commissioners for the area in which the record is kept.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/185",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Service Vehicles (Lost Property) (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/1644",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/1684/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:26:23.868052+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."
}