{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-60.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/154",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/60",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Public service vehicle not to ply for hire, etc., unless vehicle licensed",
  "text": "(1) A public service vehicle shall not stand or ply for hire or carry passengers for hire unless there is in force with respect to the vehicle a licence granted under Article 61 (in this Order referred to as a public service vehicle licence).\n(2) If a public service vehicle is used in standing or plying for hire or is used to carry passengers for hire in contravention of this Article, the owner of the vehicle and the driver. . . of the vehicle shall be guilty of an offence under this Order but the driver,. . . shall not be guilty of an offence under this Article if he proves that he did not know that there was not in force in relation to the vehicle a licence granted under Article 61.\n(3) Any public service vehicle which is used in standing or plying for hire or which is used to carry passengers for hire without having such distinguishing mark or plate as may from time to time be prescribed shall be deemed to be an unlicensed public service vehicle.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by SR 1981/199"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1991 NI 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Arts. 59-66 excluded (23.11.2009 for specified purposes, 31.5.2016 in so far as not already in operation) by Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 4), ss. 54(1), 59; S.R. 2009/352, art. 2, Sch.; S.R. 2015/389, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/154/article/60",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:26.616135+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."
}