{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1967/37",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-1967",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Grant of road service licences.",
  "text": "(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 “bus operator's licence”) for the carriage of passengers and their luggage by road.\n(2) Subject to. . . 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).\n(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 bus 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.\n(4) Any person who acts in contravention of subsection (2) ... shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by SR 1981/199; 1987/187,383"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "mod. by SR 2005/212"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "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))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "1990 NI 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "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))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1967/37/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:30:28.525479+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}