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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-transport-operator-regulations-2011/schedule-3/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2632",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Transport Operator Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-transport-operator-regulations-2011",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exemption from professional competence examinations for certain transport managers",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may grant a transport manager an exemption from the requirements of paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 3 to the 1981 Act for the purposes of compliance with the requirement of section 14ZA(3)(b) of that Act (professional competence).\n(2) The Secretary of State may grant an exemption under sub-paragraph (1) only if satisfied that the transport manager has continuously managed a road haulage undertaking or a road passenger transport undertaking (within the meaning of Article 9 of the 2009 Regulation) in one or more Member States for the period of ten years ending on 4th December 2009.\n(3) The Secretary of State may grant an exemption under sub-paragraph (1) on an application or without an application being made for it.\n(4) The power conferred by sub-paragraph (1) may not be exercised after 4th December 2013.\n(5) If an application is made for an exemption under sub-paragraph (1) and the Secretary of State refuses the application, the applicant may request a redetermination of the application by a traffic commissioner.\n(6) Sub-paragraph (2) applies to a grant of an exemption by a traffic commissioner under sub-paragraph (5) as it applies to a grant of an exemption by the Secretary of State under sub-paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 6 in force at 4.12.2011, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2632/schedule/3/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:51:28.938821+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."
}