Transport Act 1980

26Duty to give traffic commissioners information about vehicles

(1)It shall be the duty of the holder of a PSV operator's licence, on the happening to any public service vehicle owned by him of any failure or damage of a nature calculated to affect the safety of occupants of the public service vehicle or of persons using the road, to report the matter as soon as is practicable to the traffic commissioners who granted the licence.

(2)It shall be the duty of the holder of a PSV operator's licence, on any alteration otherwise than by replacement of parts being made in the structure or fixed equipment of any public service vehicle owned by him, to give notice of the alteration as soon as is practicable to the traffic commissioners who granted the licence.

(3)The traffic commissioners by whom a PSV operator's licence was granted may—

(a)require the holder of the licence to supply them forthwith or within a specified time with such information as they may reasonably require about the public service vehicles owned by him and normally kept at an operating centre within the area of those commissioners, and to keep up to date information supplied by him under this paragraph; or

(b)require the holder or former holder of the licence to supply them forthwith or within a specified time with such information as they may reasonably require about the public service vehicles owned by him at any material time specified by them which were at that time normally kept at an operating centre within the area of those commissioners.

In this subsection " material time " means a time when the PSV operator's licence in question was in force.

(4)A person who fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (1) or (2) or with any requirement under subsection (3) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £200.

(5)A person who in purporting to comply with any requirement under subsection (3) supplies any information which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500.

(6)Where a certifying officer or public service vehicle examiner imposes or removes a prohibition on the driving of a public service vehicle, he shall forthwith give notice of that fact to the traffic commissioners who granted the PSV operator's licence under which the vehicle was last used before the prohibition was imposed.