{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxi-operators-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxi-operators-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/316",
  "legislation_title": "The Taxi Operators Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxi-operators-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Exceptions",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 1(4) of the 2008 Act, the prescribed exception is provision or acceptance within section 1(4) by a person specified in paragraph (2).\n(2) The person specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) is—\n(a) a person who holds a Road Service Licence granted under Part II of the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 for a taxi bus;\n(b) a person providing only wedding cars; or\n(c) a person providing courtesy transport.\n(3) In this regulation—\n“courtesy transport” means transport provided in a vehicle with no more than 8 seats in addition to the driver, which is primarily used for the carriage of passengers with the services of a driver on behalf of an organisation or business whose primary purpose is not that of carrying passengers;\n“taxi bus” has the same meaning as in regulation 3(1) of the Public Service Vehicles Regulations .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 15(2) substituted (31.5.2016) by The Taxi Operators Licensing (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/395), regs. 1, 2(8)(a), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(3) substituted (31.5.2016) by The Taxi Operators Licensing (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/395), regs. 1, 2(8)(b), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "The definition of taxi bus was inserted by regulation 2 of S.R. 2004 No. 413"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/316/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:14:20.519650+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."
}