{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1967/37",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-1967",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Duration of road service licences.",
  "text": "(1) A bus operator's licence shall, unless previously revoked, continue in force for a period of three years from the date on which it is expressed to take effect or such [ other period as may be specified therein].\n(2) If on the date of the expiration of a bus operator's licence an application is before the Ministry for the grant of a new bus operator's licence in substitution for an existing bus operator's licence held by the applicant, the existing bus operator's licence shall continue in force until the application is disposed of.\n[(2A If on the date of the expiration of a bus operator's licence the licence is, by virtue of regulations made under section 33, held by a person other than the person to whom the licence was granted, the licence shall continue in force until the application by that other person for a new bus operator's licence is disposed of in accordance with those regulations.]\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The holder of a bus operator's licence may, subject to any conditions attached to the licence, at any time surrender the licence to the Ministry.",
  "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": "Words in s. 8(1) substituted (5.10.2015) by Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 11), s. 48(2), Sch. 1 para. 9(2); S.R. 2015/284, art. 2(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "SR 1977/327"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(2) substituted (5.10.2015) by Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 11), s. 48(2), Sch. 1 para. 9(3); S.R. 2015/284, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 2(2)(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "SR 1981/2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(2A) substituted (5.10.2015) by Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 11), s. 48(2), Sch. 1 para. 9(4); S.R. 2015/284, art. 2(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 8(3) repealed (5.10.2015) by Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 11), s. 48(2), Sch. 1 para. 9(5), Sch. 2; S.R. 2015/284, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 2(2)(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(4) substituted (5.10.2015) by Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 11), s. 48(2), Sch. 1 para. 9(6); S.R. 2015/284, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 2(2)(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1967/37/section/8",
    "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."
}