{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-62",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-62.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/62",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Public service vehicles not to carry more than the prescribed number of persons.",
  "text": "(1) A public service vehicle shall not carry a greater number of persons than that prescribed for the vehicle.\n(2) If a greater number of persons than that prescribed for the vehicle is carried in a public service vehicle the owner of the vehicle and the driver of the vehicle shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.\n(3) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this Article, the court shall cause particulars of the conviction to be endorsed upon the licence granted under Article 61 in respect of the vehicle. . . .\n(4) The owner. . . of a public service vehicle who is charged with an offence under this Article shall, when required to do so, produce to the court before which he is charged the licence granted in respect of the vehicle under Article 61. . . and if he fails to do so shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.\nPara. (5) rep. by 1991 NI 3",
  "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": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1996 NI 10"
    },
    {
      "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/62",
    "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."
}