# The Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) Order 1990, Paragraph 6: PSV operators licences


(1) An application for a PSV operator’s licence made before reorganisation date shall as, from that date be treated as an application to the traffic commissioner for the traffic area in which the places named in the application as operating centres are situated or, if there is more than one such area, to the traffic commissioner for each of those areas in so far as it relates to their respective areas.
(2) Where—
(a) an application has, before 1st March 1991, been made to a traffic commissioner for the variation of a PSV operator’s licence; and
(b) it appears to him that the applicant intends to start using a particular place in the old area as an operating centre if the application is successful, but not otherwise;
the traffic commissioner may, at any time before reorganisation date, if that place is in a transferred area, direct that the application shall, as from reorganisation date, be treated in whole or in part as an application to the traffic commissioner for the new area for a PSV operator’s licence.
(3) Where—
(a) a decision whether to grant an application for a new PSV operator’s licence made before reorganisation date fails by virtue of article 9 of this Order or sub-paragraph (2) above, to be determined after that date by a traffic commissioner other than the traffic commissioner to whom the application was made; and
(b) at any time before the decision is made, the applicant holds a PSV operator’s licence in respect of the area of that other traffic commissioner (“the existing licence”),
the traffic commissioner for that other area shall treat the application as an application for a variation of the existing licence (or the existing licence with the latest expiry date if there is, on reorganisation date, more than one existing date).
(4) If—
(a) a traffic commissioner other than the Traffic Commissioner for the Metropolitan Traffic Area, as respects a licence, fails to give a direction under sub-paragraph (2) above before reorganisation date, the functions under that sub-paragraph as respects that licence shall nevertheless be exercisable by that traffic commissioner, on or after that date, and
(b) the Traffic Commissioner for the Metropolitan Traffic Area, as respects a licence fails to give a direction under sub-paragraph (2) above before reorganisation date, the functions under that sub-paragraph as respects that licence shall, on and after that date, be exercisable by the Traffic Commissioner for the South-Eastern and Metropolitan Traffic Area.
(5) A reference in this paragraph to the maximum number of vehicles specified in a PSV operator’s licence shall be construed in accordance with paragraph 4(9) of this Schedule.
(6) Nothing in this paragraph shall affect the validity of any notice published before reorganisation date.
(7) For the purposes of this paragraph, a person holds a PSV operator’s licence in respect of an area if he either holds or is treated as holding such licence in respect of the area.
(8) In this paragraph “old area” has the meaning given in paragraph 4(11) of this Schedule.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/288/schedule/2/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-areas-reorganisation-order-1990/schedule-2/paragraph-6
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