Article 2 Amendment of the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Offences) Order

In Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty) (Offences) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997^f1 (fixed penalty offences) after item 50 insert—

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Offences under the Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008^f2
50ZA Section 1(3) Operating a taxi service without an operator’s licence.
50ZB Section 3(10) Operating a taxi service using an unlicensed taxi or a taxi driven by a person who does not hold a taxi driver’s licence.
50ZC Section 3(11)
Failure to keep documents or records at an operating centre which is listed on the operator’s licence as an operating centre at which records are to be kept.

Subject to the exceptions prescribed in regulation 16 of the Taxi Operators Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012^f3, being an affiliated driver of more than one licensed operator at any one time.

Failure by an affiliated driver of a licensed operator to notify that operator of the prescribed particulars^f4 of any taxi booking the affiliated driver carries out as soon as reasonably practicable after doing so.

Failure by an affiliated driver of a licensed operator to notify that operator of any other provision the affiliated driver makes of a taxi to stand or ply for hire or reward or to carry passengers for hire or reward as soon as reasonably practicable after doing so.

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Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 1997 No. 369, as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 354, S.R. 2007 No. 318, S.R. 2011 Nos. 287 and 379 and S.R. 2013 No.5
f2: 2008 c.4 (N.I.)
f3: S.R. 2012 No. 316
f4: See regulation 9 of the Taxi Operators Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012 No. 316)

Offences under the Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008^f2
50ZA	Section 1(3)	Operating a taxi service without an operator’s licence.
50ZB	Section 3(10)	Operating a taxi service using an unlicensed taxi or a taxi driven by a person who does not hold a taxi driver’s licence.
50ZC	Section 3(11)	Failure to keep documents or records at an operating centre which is listed on the operator’s licence as an operating centre at which records are to be kept. Subject to the exceptions prescribed in regulation 16 of the Taxi Operators Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012^f3, being an affiliated driver of more than one licensed operator at any one time. Failure by an affiliated driver of a licensed operator to notify that operator of the prescribed particulars^f4 of any taxi booking the affiliated driver carries out as soon as reasonably practicable after doing so. Failure by an affiliated driver of a licensed operator to notify that operator of any other provision the affiliated driver makes of a taxi to stand or ply for hire or reward or to carry passengers for hire or reward as soon as reasonably practicable after doing so.