Paragraph 3

In section 67 (duration of operators’ licences and grant of interim licences) in subsection (2) (determination of expiry date of operators’ licences) after the words “unless previously revoked” there shall be inserted the words “or prematurely terminated under section 69 of this Act.”

In subsection (3)(a) of that section (power of licensing authorities to direct that, in certain specified cases, the period relevant to the duration of an operator’s licence shall be less than five years) for paragraphs (i) and (ii) there shall be substituted the words “if it appears to the licensing authority to be appropriate in the case of any applicant”.

In subsection (5) of that section (interim licences) after the words “63 or” there shall be inserted the words “subsections (1) to (3) of section” and after the words “application for an operator’s licence” there shall be inserted the words “but shall be so treated for the purposes of section 64(4) of this Act”.