Regulation 15 Exceptions

Northern Ireland

(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).

F1(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—

F2“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 M1.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: 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
F2: 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

Marginal citations

M1: The definition of taxi bus was inserted by regulation 2 of S.R. 2004 No. 413