The Goods Vehicle Licensing Regulations
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THE official title of the latest Ministry of Transport publication is 'The Goods Vehicles (Licences and PrJhibitions) Provisional Regulations, 1934." They came into force last Wednesday and we now give a resumt% although copies can be obtained, price eal. each net, at TIM. Stationery Office.
Failure to comply with any of the regulations may involve a maximum fine of £5.
How to Obtain Licences.
APPLICATION FOR LICENCES.—For Class A or B licences separate application must be made for each base or centre, whether in the same Traffic Area or not in which the authorized vehicles will normally be used, For Class C licences applications must be made to the licensing authority either for the area in which is' the principal place of business of the applicant, or in that in which his head office is situated.
An applicant may not specify on any application a vehicle already specified (a) on any licence held by him (except to renew that licence or to have the vehicle deleted from one licence and added to another) ; (b) on any licence suspended or revoked or from which the vehicle has been removed by direction under Section 13 (3) of the Act; (c) on any other application still under consideration.
Every application must he in duplicate, made out on the appropriate form and, in the case of Class C licences, accompanied by the prescribed fee.
The particulars referred to in Section 5 (2) (a), (b) and (c) of the Act shall, when required by the authority, be submitted in the form set out in Schedule 2 to these regulations. [These particulars are : (a) Such as the authority may require with respect to any business as a public carrier carried on by the applicant before the making of the application and to the rates charged ; (b) to any agreement er arrangement affecting the provision within the licensing authority's area of facilities for the carriage of goofs for hire or reward entered into with any other person operating within or without the area; (c) to any financial interest as partner, shareholder, guarantor, etc., which any operator for hire or reward or who controls the business oil any other person providing such facilities, has in the business of the applicant; where the applicant is a compauy, Of any right which such person has to nominate any director of the company.—En.1 SIGNING OF APPLICATIONS.—Every application must be signed by the person requiring the licence, or if for a locel authority, company, or partnership, by the clerk to the authority, the secretary or manager, or other duly authorized official, or a paitner in the firm.
DATE OF APPLICATION.—Every application should reach the authority not less than eight weeks before the date on which the licence or variation is to take effect, although the authority may for special reasons accept and deal with any application not received by him within the prescribed time.
Where Applications, etc., May be Seen.
APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION.— A copy of every notifiable application and of every application under Section 7 (2) and (3) [i.e., applications for
" claimed" tonnage,—En.] must be available at the office of the authority until the application has been determined, also during the currency of any licence granted er varied in respect of the application.
. A copy of every Class A licence, other than far " claimed " tonnage, and of every Class B licencemust be available at the office of the authority during its currenc. , for inspection, if necessary.
STATEMENT BY LICENSING AUTHORITY.—The authority will issue, as occasion requires, a statement called
Applications and Decisions," which will contain details of notifiable applications and those for " claimed " tonnage. the dates and places at which public inquiries will be held, and decisions and applications other than those for shottterm licences, also any decision to revoke or suspend a licence and any direction as to the reduction in the number of vehicles. • NOTICE OF OBJECTIONS,—Every objection in respect of an application must be made in writing in the form set out in Schedule 3 of the Regulations, and be sent to the authority not later than 14 days after the notice has appeared. A copy of every objection must be sent to the applicant at the seine time.
The Carrying of Identity Certificates.
IDENTIFICATION OF VEHICLES.—The holder of a Class A. or B licence must carry in a waterproof container in a conspicuous place on the near side of the vehicle the appropriate identity certificate, and at all times while the vehicle is in use the certificate must be readily legible.
The holder of a Class C licence must display either his name and the postal address of the place specified on the licence in letters and figures not less than 1 in. high, and of such shape and colour as to be clearly legible and clearly distinguishable from the colour of the surface on which they are painted, or the letter " C " and the identification letter and number of the licence under which the vehicle is operated, in a conspicuous place on the near side. This does not apply in the case of the special short-term licences, where, in the case of a first application, the authority, for administrative reasons, grants a Class A licence for 12 months or a Class B licence for six months.
RETURN OF LICENCES AND CERTIFICATES.— When a licence is to be varied, the holder, if required, must return the licence to the authority, and in the case of a Class A or Class B licence the identity certificate in respect of any vehicle to be deleted. '
The Cost of Altering a Licence.
FEES FOR LICENCE VARIATIONS.—The fees for variation of a licence authorizing the use of an additional vehicle or trailer are at the following rates for each such addition :—Class A, where the unexpired period does not exceed six months, 7s. ed.; exceeds six months but not 12, 15s.; exceeds 12 months but not 18, 22s. 6d.; exceeds 18 months, 30s. Class B, where the unexpired period does not exceed six months, 10s. ; exceeds six months, 20s. Class C, where the unexpired period is under one year, 2s. Cid.; exceeds one year, but not two years, 5s.; over two years, 7s. Oct. The period is calculated from the date on which the variation is specified in the licence.
Fees for short-term licences are :—Class A, 7s. &I. ; Class B, 10s. ; Class C, 2s. 6d.; except where the authority grants special short-term A or B licences for administrative reasons, when the fees for each month or part of a month are :--Class A, is. 3d.; Class B, is. 8d.
The fee for varying the conditions attached to a Class licence is 10s.
No fee is required for any variation involving solely the deletion of any vehicle, the reduction in the number of authorized vehicles, or the substitution of one vehicle for another.
Where vehicles are hired by the licence holder, the fee's are payable in respect of each of the number of vehicles authorized, not in respeCt of each vehicle hired.
A duplicate licence or identity certificate costs is. PAYMENT OF FEES.—No licence or identity certificate will be issued and iao variation made until the applicant has paid the appropriate fee to the licensing • authority.
EXPIRY OF LICENCES,—The dates for the expiration of licences, other than short-term, shall be March 24 and the last day of every other calendar month.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS.—A licancc holder who changes his address must notify the change within seven days.
PRODUCTION FOR EXAMINATION.—The holder must produce his licence for examination when required by any constable, certifying officer, examiner or other person duly authorised, but may select whether to produce it at his base, head office or principal place of business.
SALE OF VEHICLES.—If durieg the currency of a licence the holder ceases to own any vehicle specified in it, he must within five days notify the authority by which the licence was granted and return the licence for amendment or cancellation, together with the relative identity certificate.
DEATH, BANKRUPTCY, ETC., OF HOLDER.—In the event of death, incapacity, bankruptcy or liquidation of the holder, or the appointment of a receiver or manager in the business of a licence holder, notice must be sent within five days to the authority, by which the licence was granted, and if an application for a new licence be lodged within 14 days of the date of the notification, the person carrying on the business shall be deemed to be the holder for such period as will enable the application to be determined. Such period may in no case extend beyond the date on which the licence would have expired, and will terminate upon the determination of the application by the authority. APPEALS TO THE TRIBUNAL.—Every appeal to the Tribunal against the decision of the authority in respect of a notifiable application, suspension, revocation, direction to remove a vehicle, or against any condition or variation to the conditions attached to a licence in respect of a notifiable application, must be lodged with the Tribunal not later than one month after publication of the decision appealed against
This also applies to appeals against decisiens where the applications, etc., are nOt notifiable.
The appeal must be in writing, must indicate precisely the decision by which the appellant is aggrieved and must state the grounds for the appeal. At the same time a copy must be sent (a) to the licensing authority; (b) to every person who made an objection which the authority was bound to take into account, or (c) in the case of an . appeal made by a person who made an objection which the authority was bound to take into consideration, to the applicant PROHIBITIONS OF USE OF VEHICLES.---Every prohibition of the use of a goods vehicle made by an examiner or certifying officer must be given in writing in the form set out in Schedule V of the Regulations.
Where a certifying officer has inspected a vehicle he shall, within seven days, give his decision, whether or not to remove the prohibition, in writing to the person on whose application he examined the vehicle.
Every appeal to the Minister against the refusal of a certifying officer to remove a prohibition must be made in writing within 14 days of the person tieing notified.
We are not publishing a itsurnb of Schedules 1 to 5, as these are merely details of the forms to which we rereferred last week, with the exception of the Notice of Ob
, jection in Schedule 3 and the Notice of Prohibition of Use of a Vehicle—GV.O.