Section 4 Grant of road service licences.F1

Northern Ireland

F2(1)

The Ministry may, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this Part and Part IV, grant to any person applying therefor a licence (in this Act referred to as a F3“bus operator's licence”) for the carriage of passengers and their luggage by road.

(2)

Subject toF4. . . regulations made under section 45, no person shall use a motor vehicle, or cause or permit such a motor vehicle to be used, on a road to carry passengers and their luggage for reward except under a licence granted under subsection (1).

(3)

For the purposes of this section a motor vehicle used to carry passengers and their luggage for reward shall not be deemed to be used under a F5bus operator's licence unless it is used by or on behalf of the holder of the licence and in accordance with the conditions applicable to the licence.

(4)

Any person who acts in contravention of subsection (2) F6... shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceedingF7 level 5 on the standard scale.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: mod. by SR 1981/199; 1987/187,383
F2: mod. by SR 2005/212
F3: Words in s. 4(1) substituted (5.10.2015) by Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 11), ss. 18(1), 48(2); S.R. 2015/284, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 2(2)(3))
F4: 1990 NI 7
F5: Words in s. 4(3) substituted (5.10.2015) by Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 11), s. 48(2), Sch. 1 para. 3; S.R. 2015/284, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 2(2)(3))
F6: Words in s. 4(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The International Road Passenger Transport (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/973), regs. 1(2), 2(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F7: 1984 NI 3

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Certain functions transf. by SR 1999/481

Notes on Part II

Modifications

C1: Pt. 2 (ss. 4-13) excluded (prosp.) by Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 4), ss. 54(2), 59 (with s. 54(3))
C2: Pt. II: transfer of functions (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 Pt. 2 (with art. 9(2))