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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1980-commencement-no-2-order-1980/schedule/part-I",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1353",
  "legislation_title": "The Transport Act 1980 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1980",
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  "number": "I",
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  "text": "(1)\n(2)\nSections of the 1980 Act\nSubject matter of sections\nSection 1(3) and (4) so far as it relates to the other sections specified in this Part of this Schedule.\nProvision that Part I of the 1980 Act shall be construed and have effect as if it were (except so far as it textually amends any enactment) contained in Part III of the 1960 Act and that any reference to the said Part III in any statutory provision not contained in either the said Part I or the said Part III shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as including a reference to the said Part I.\nSection 2.\nDefinition of “public service vehicle”.\nSection 3.\nClassification of public service vehicles as stage, express or contract carriages.\nSchedule 1.\nPublic service vehicles: Conditions affecting status or classification.\nPart I.\nSharing of taxis and hire-cars.\nPart II.\nParties of overseas visitors.\nPart III.\nAlternative conditions affecting status or classification.\nSection 4.\nRoad service licences.\nSection 5.\nGrant of road service licences.\nSection 6.\nAttachment to road service licences of conditions as to matters other than fares.\nSection 7.\nAttachment to road service licences of conditions as to fares.\nSection 8.\nGrant of road service licences for services on routes not otherwise served.\nSection 9.\nGrant of road service licences for certain excursions or tours.\nSection 10.\nRevocation and suspension of road service licences.\nSection 11.\nDuration of road service licences.\nSection 12.\nDesignation of trial areas.\nSection 13.\nStage carriage services in trial areas.\nSection 14.\nDuty to publish particulars of stage carriage services in trial areas.\nSection 15.\nRelaxation in trial areas of operators' duty to co-operate and exchange information.\nSection 28(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), (9) and (10) in so far as it relates to road service licences.\nAppeals to the Minister.\nSection 29 in so far as it relates to road service licences.\nFurther appeals on points of law.\nSection 32.\nFare-paying passengers on school buses.\nSection 33.\nUse of certain vehicles by educational and other bodies.\nSection 35.\nAmendment of Transport (London) Act 1969.\nSection 37.\nReduction of minimum age for drivers of public service vehicles.\nSection 38 in so far as it amends section 159 of the 1960 Act in relation to—\nFees for the grant of licences etc.\napplications for, and the grant of, road service licences;\napplication for, and the issue of, certificates under section 27 as to repute, professional competence, financial standing;\napplications for, and the issue of, documents required in relation to public service vehicles registered in Great Britain while making journeys to or from places outside Great Britain or in relation to public service vehicles registered outside Great Britain;\napplication for, and the issue of, licences to drive public service vehicles, and\nprovisions for the traffic commissioners or the commissioner of police for the metropolis for a person to undergo a test for his competence as a driver in connection with an application by him for a licence to drive a public service vehicle, being a test which he is by virtue of regulations required to undergo in that connection.\nSection 40.\nIncrease of penalties.\nSchedule 4.\nIncrease of penalties.\nSection 41 in so far as it relates to road service licences.\nOffences by bodies corporate.\nSection 42(1) in so far as it relates to the provisions specified in section 42(2) except sections 25(5) and 26(4).\nDefences available to persons charged with certain offences.\nSection 42(2) save in so far as it specifies sections 25(5) and 26(4).\nSection 42(3) in so far as it relates to the provisions specified in section 42(4) except sections 17(3), 18(9)(b), 19(5), 22(7) and 24(4).\nSection 42(4) save in so far as it specifies sections 17(3), 18(9)(b), 19(5), 22(7) and 24(4).\nSection 43(1) in so far as it relates to the sections of the 1960 Act specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order, and to the provisions mentioned in Part III of that Schedule.\nAmendments of other Acts.\nSection 43(2).\nSection 44 in so far as it relates to any provision specified in this Order.\nInterpretation.\nSection 61.\nInsurance or security in respect of private use of vehicles to cover use under carsharing arrangements.\nSection 62.\nGrants towards duty charged on bus fuel, and new bus grants.\nSection 65.\nRepeal of section 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transport Charges etc. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954 (which relate to charges on independent tramways, trolley vehicles and railways of the nature of a tramway).\nSection 69 in so far as it relates to the repeals specified in Part IV of the Schedule to this Order.\nRepeals.",
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  "status": null,
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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