Article 9

Until 26th October 1986—

(1)

section 89(6)(b) of the 1985 Act shall have effect as if it read as follows—

“(b)

a road service licence in respect of, or a consent to the operation of, a community bus service granted under section 45 of the 1981 Act^f1 or a permit under section 22 of this Act.”;

(2)

in section 110(2), the definition of bus service contained in section 92(8) of the Finance Act 1965^f2 shall be amended by the substitution for paragraphs (a) and (b) of the following—

“(a)

provided under a road service licence granted under Part III of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981; or

(b)

exempted from requiring a road service licence by section 43 of the London Regional Transport Act 1984; or

(c)

provided in a trial area as defined in section 38 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 and in respect of which the requirements of section 40 of that Act have been satisfied;”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 45 was amended in its application in relation to a community bus service within a trial area by the Bus Services in Trial Areas Regulations 1981 (S.I. 1981/269), regulation 5 and Schedule 3.
f2: section 92(8) was substituted by the Transport Act 1968 (c. 73), section 33(2); the London Regional Transport Act 1984 (c. 32), Schedule 6, paragraph 3; and the Transport Act 1985, section 110(2) .