Section 2

For regulation 5 of the Public Service Vehicles (Operators' Licences) Regulations 1986^f1 there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“5

(1)

The prescribed time within which an objection under section 14A must be made is the period of 21 days beginning with the day after the date when the notice of the application is published in Notices and Proceedings.

(2)

The prescribed manner for making an objection for the purposes of section 14A is by serving on the traffic commissioner a document—

(a)

setting out the objection, and

(b)

signed by or on behalf of the person making the objection.

(3)

Service of a document on the traffic commissioner shall, for the purposes of this regulation, be effected by—

(a)

delivering it to him,

(b)

sending it to him by post, or

(c)

by transmitting it to him by FAX,

at the Traffic Area Office.

(4)

A copy of every objection shall be sent by the objector to the applicant on the day or the next working day after it is made.

(5)

In this regulation—

• “FAX” means the making of a facsimile copy of a document by the transmission of electronic signals; and

• “Traffic Area Office” means the office for the time being appointed by the traffic commissioner as the Traffic Area Office for the purposes of these Regulations.”.