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Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995
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21 Conditions [F1attached to heavy goods vehicle licences] for securing road safety.E+W+S
(1)On issuing [F2a heavy goods vehicle] licence, or on varying such a licence under section 17, a traffic commissioner may attach to the licence such conditions as he thinks fit for preventing [F3heavy goods] vehicles that are authorised to be used under it from causing danger to the public—
(a)at any point where [F4heavy goods] vehicles first join a public road on their way from an operating centre of the licence-holder (or last leave a public road on their way to such an operating centre); and
(b)on any road (other than a public road) along which [F5heavy goods] vehicles are driven between such a point and the operating centre.
(2)On varying [F6a heavy goods vehicle] licence under section 17 a traffic commissioner may vary or remove any condition attached to the licence under this section.
(3)[F7A traffic commissioner] shall not—
(a)attach to [F8a heavy goods vehicle] licence any condition such as is mentioned in this section, or
(b)vary in such manner as imposes new or further restrictions or requirements any condition attached to [F9a heavy goods vehicle] licence under this section,
[F7unless the applicant for the licence or (as the case may be) the licence-holder has first been given an opportunity to make representations to a traffic commissioner] with respect to the effect on his business of the proposed condition or variation.
(4)The traffic commissioner shall give special consideration to any representations made under subsection (3) in determining whether to attach the proposed condition or make the proposed variation.
(5)In this section “public road”—
(a)in relation to England and Wales, means a highway maintainable at the public expense for the purposes of the M1Highways Act 1980; and
(b)in relation to Scotland, has the same meaning as in the M2Roads (Scotland) Act 1984.
(6)Any person who contravenes any condition attached under this section to a licence of which he is the holder is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
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F1Words in s. 21 heading inserted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 39(1)
F2Words in s. 21(1) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 39(2)(a)(i)
F3Words in s. 21(1) inserted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 39(2)(a)(ii)
F4Words in s. 21(1)(a) inserted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 39(2)(b)
F5Words in s. 21(1)(b) inserted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 39(2)(c)
F6Words in s. 21(2) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 39(3)
F7Words in s. 21(3) substituted (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)
F8Words in s. 21(3)(a) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 39(4)
F9Words in s. 21(3)(b) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 39(4)
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