Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981

54Procedure of traffic commissioners

(1)The traffic commissioners may for any purpose, if they so think fit, hold public sittings at such places as appear to them convenient.

(2)Not less than two commissioners shall be present at the hearing of an opposed application for the grant of a road service licence, and if where such an application is heard by two commissioners only there is a difference of opinion between them, the matter shall be reheard and determined by all the commissioners.

(3)The traffic commissioners may delegate to any one of their members any of their functions other than those of hearing and determining opposed applications for the grant of road service licences and other than those of advising a local authority on the making of an order under section 15 or 33 of the [1967 c. 76.] Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 or determining the charges referred to in subsection (3) of the said section 33.

(4)So much of subsection (2) above as requires not less than two commissioners to be present at the hearing of an opposed application for the grant of a road service licence shall not apply—

(a)to so much of the hearing of any such application as is devoted to determining whether the commissioners are satisfied as mentioned in section 34(1) or 35(1) of this Act; or

(b)to the remainder of the hearing of any such application in the case of which the commissioners have determined that they are so satisfied.

(5)In this section " opposed application " means an application with respect to which an objection has been made and not withdrawn, being an objection to which the traffic commissioners are obliged to have regard by virtue of section 31(3)(c)of this Act.