Regulation 13 Assessors to assist traffic commissioners

This regulation applies where the traffic commissioner, in considering any matter referred under regulation 11, is required to determine whether the ground specified in regulation 7(3)(b) has been satisfied.

In making such a determination the traffic commissioner may be assisted by an assessor selected from a panel of persons appointed by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 17A of the 1981 Act^f1.

Where a traffic commissioner seeks the assistance of a person described in paragraph (2), the traffic commissioner must pay that person such remuneration as may be determined by the Secretary of State.