# The Taxi Operators Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012, Regulation 15: Exceptions

Extent: N.I.

(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).
(2) The person specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) is—
(a) a person who holds a Road Service Licence granted under Part II of the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 for a taxi bus;
(b) a person providing only wedding cars; or
(c) a person providing courtesy transport.
(3) In this regulation—
“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;
“taxi bus” has the same meaning as in regulation 3(1) of the Public Service Vehicles Regulations .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/316/regulation/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxi-operators-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-15
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