Regulation 2 Amendment of the Road Service Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989

for the words “Part II of the Act shall not apply to”, there shall be substituted–

• “Except where a person must obtain a road service licence for the use of a vehicle on a road in order to comply with Part II of the Act, Part II of the Act shall not apply to”;

in paragraphs (b) and (e), for “six persons” there shall be substituted “eight persons”; and

after paragraph (e), there shall be added–

“(f)

the use of a vehicle which–

(i)

has a seating capacity for not more than eight persons in addition to the driver, and

(ii)

is licensed under Article 61 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981^f2 to carry passengers for hire (but not to stand or ply for hire).”.