The Transport Act 1980 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1981

11.—(1) In a case where immediately before 1st April 1981 a person is the holder of a public service vehicle licence he may use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road as a stage, express or contract carriage the vehicle in respect of which the licence was issued, subject to any prohibition which is imposed in relation to the vehicle, until the earliest of the following dates, namely—

(a)the date on which the licence expires,

(b)the date on which the said person is granted a PSV operator's licence by virtue of which the vehicle may be used as a stage, express or contract carriage in accordance with the provisions of Part I of the 1980 Act.

(2) If, on or after 1st April 1981, a public service vehicle licence mentioned in paragraph (1) is due to expire or does expire the person who is or who was immediately before such expiry, as the case may be, the holder of the licence may, until 1st October 1982, apply for another public service vehicle licence for the vehicle to which the expired licence relates or related.

(3) If, on or after 1st April 1981, a person who is the holder of a public service vehicle licence desires to use, or cause or permit to be used, on a road as a stage, express or contract carriage, a vehicle in respect of which he does not hold a public service vehicle licence and which he cannot operate by virtue of a PSV operator's licence, he may, until 1st October 1982, apply for a public service vehicle licence for the vehicle.

(4) An application made by virtue of paragraph (2) or (3) shall be made to the authority mentioned in section 127(6) of the 1960 Act, and the authority to whom the application is made may grant or refuse the licence applied for, and as regards any licence which they may grant, and any other public service vehicle licence to which this Article relates, the provisions of sections 127 and 132 of the 1960 Act shall apply to the licence or the holder of it save that section 127(9) of that Act shall apply so that the licence shall, unless previously revoked, continue in force only from the date on which it is granted until either 1st October 1982 or the date mentioned in paragraph (1)(b), whichever is the earlier.

(5) The provisions of Part II (except Regulation 14) and Part III of the 1952 Regulations and the provisions of the 1977 Regulations shall apply, notwithstanding any revocation thereof, as regards a public service vehicle licence to which this Article relates being either a standard or a restricted licence and to an application therefor.

(6) As regards any appeal arising from an application made on or after 1st April 1981 for a public service vehicle licence, the coming into force of sections 28 and 29, the repeal of section 143 of the 1960 Act specified in paragraph 1 of Part IV of the Schedule to this Order, and the repeal of provisions in section 13 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 specified in paragraph 2 of the said Part IV shall be deemed not to have occurred.

(7) The fee for a public service vehicle licence granted in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Article shall be £3·50 for each month, or part of a month, during which the licence is expressed to have effect, and such fee shall be paid before the licence is granted.