{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-2000/section-263",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-2000/section-263.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/38",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-2000",
  "path": "section/263",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "263",
  "heading": "Addition of specified vehicles to operator’s licence.",
  "text": "In section 5 of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 (vehicles authorised to be used under operator’s licence), for subsection (6) substitute—\n“(6) A motor vehicle which is not specified in an operator’s licence is not authorised to be used under that licence by virtue of subsection (1) on or after the relevant day unless the licence-holder—\n(a) has given to a traffic commissioner a notice in such form and containing such information about the vehicle as is required by a traffic commissioner, and\n(b) has paid the prescribed fee (if any) to a traffic commissioner.\n(6A) For the purposes of subsection (6) “the relevant day” is the latest of the following days—\n(a) the day on which the vehicle was first in the lawful possession of the licence holder,\n(b) the day on which the licence came into force,\n(c) if a day not more than one month after the later of those days is prescribed for the purpose, the day so prescribed. ”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 263 inserted (9.2.2009) by Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), ss. 125(3)(a), 134(4); S.I. 2009/107, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 263 substituted (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 263 inserted (9.2.2009) by Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), ss. 125(4), 134(4); S.I. 2009/107, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1995 c. 23."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/38/section/263",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:32.082416+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}