Regulation 3 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the 1981 Act” means the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 M1;

• “the 1981 Regulations” means the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981 M2;

• “EEA State” means a State, not being a member State, which is a party to the EEA Agreement;

• F1“Interbus” means the Agreement on the international occasional carriage of passengers by coach and bus (Interbus Agreement) originally concluded in Brussels on 30th June 2001 and as acceded to by the United Kingdom by instrument of accession deposited on 29th October 2020;

• “PSV operator's licence” has the meaning given by section 82(1) of the 1981 Act;

• “Regulation 1071/2009” means Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing common rules concerning the conditions to be complied with to pursue the occupation of road transport operator M3;

• F2“RPT Chapter” means Title II of Heading Three of Part Two (transport of passengers by road) of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, together with—

  1. (a)

     Annexes 32, 33 and 34 to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement; and

  2. (b)

     Articles 124, 135 and 137 of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, so far as applying to that Title;

• “RSR Protocol” means the Protocol to Interbus regarding the international regular and special regular carriage of passengers by coach and bus;

• “Trade and Cooperation Agreement” has the meaning given in section 37(1) of the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020;

• F3...

• “traffic commissioner” means a commissioner appointed under section 4 of the 1981 Act;

For the purposes of F4the RPT Chapter, Interbus and the RSR Protocol, “authorised inspecting officer” means—

Terms and expressions used in F5the RPT Chapter, Interbus or the RSR Protocol have the same meaning in these Regulations.