{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicles-registration-of-local-services-regulations-1986/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicles-registration-of-local-services-regulations-1986/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1671",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-vehicles-registration-of-local-services-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Applications for registration",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an application for registration in respect of a service having stopping places in more than one traffic area shall be made to the traffic commissioner for the area in which the service will start.\n(2) In the case of a service with stopping places outside London which, except for the operation of section 34(3) of the 1985 Act, would be part of a service which requires a London local service licence, the application shall be made to the traffic commissioner for the Metropolitan Traffic Area.\n(3) An application for registration or for the variation or cancellation of a registration shall not be accepted by the traffic commissioner to whom it is made unless the applicant gives to the commissioner such information as he shall reasonably require in connection with the application.\n(4) A copy of an application for registration or for variation or cancellation of a registration shall be delivered or sent to each relevant authority no later than the date on which the application is made to the traffic commissioner.\n(5) The traffic commissioner shall send notice of the date of the acceptance by him of an application for registration or for the variation or cancellation of a registration to the applicant and to every relevant authority.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 26.10.1986, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/1986/1671",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) Regulations 1986"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2018/439",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2018"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/10",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 3(1)(2)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/1644",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/1644",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/1644",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/1644",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/1644",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/1265",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services in Enhanced Partnership Areas) (England) Regulations 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1671/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:40:50.013081+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."
}