{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/11",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Amendments of the Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "text": "(1) The Taxis Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 4) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In section 5 (hiring of taxis at separate fares - general), in subsection (1) for paragraph (c) (operator authorised under operator's licence) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(c) a service agreement or service permit under the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 so provides.”.\n(3) In section 8 (operator's licence authorising separate fares)—\n(a) paragraph (a) shall cease to have effect;\n(b) in paragraph (b), for the words “that taxi service” there shall be substituted the words “ a taxi service for or in respect of the carriage of passengers at separate fares ”;\n(c) in the heading for the word “authorising” there shall be substituted the words “ conditions relating to ”.\n(4) The following provisions shall cease to have effect—\n(a) section 9 (duty to give information for the purposes of section 10);\n(b) section 10 (functions of the Department of the Environment in relation to licence authorising separate fares);\n(c) section 11 (appeals in relation to operator's licence authorising separate fares);\n(d) section 54(3) (licence authorising separate fares deemed for purposes of section 14 of Finance Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 to be road service licence under Part 2 of 1967 Act).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 in operation at 5.10.2015 by S.R. 2015/284, art. 2(1), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/11/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:52.623933+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."
}