TRANSPORT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 5 Particulars to be provided by applicants for road service licences.

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TRANSPORT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 5

Particulars to be provided by applicants for road service licences.

5.[(1)] A person applying to the Ministry for a road service licence shall
give such information as may reasonably be required to enable the Ministry to
exercise the functions conferred on it by section 6, and in particular shall
give (where appropriate) information as to

(a)the type or types of motor vehicles to be used;

(b)the services which it is proposed to provide under the licence;

(c)the frequency of the services, the times to be taken on the journeys
included in those services and the number of vehicles to be used on those
services;

(d)any previous experience of the applicant as a person providing any
facilities wheresoever for the carriage of passengers for reward;

(e)any agreement or arrangement affecting in any material respect the
provision of passenger transport facilities entered into by the applicant with
any other person by whom such facilities are provided;

(f)any financial interest (whether past, subsisting or proposed, and whether
as a partner or shareholder or as a result of a loan, guarantee or other
financial transaction) of the applicant in the provision of any facilities
wheresoever for the carriage of passengers for reward, or of any such interest
of any other person in any business carried on by the applicant in providing
such facilities.

[(2) A person applying for a road service licence to which this subsection
applies shall in addition to the information referred to in subsection (1)
give the Department such information as may reasonably be required to enable
the Department to exercise the functions conferred on it by section 6A, and in
particular shall give

(a)particulars of any convictions during the five years preceding the making
of the application, and at any time thereafter until the disposal of the
application, of the applicant and of any person specified in the application
in pursuance of section 6A(2) or (3);

(b)particulars of the financial resources which are, or are likely to be,
available to the applicant;

(c)particulars of the professional competence qualifications of the applicant
and of any person specified in the application in pursuance of section 6A(2)
or (3);

(d)a statement indicating whether or not the applicant intends to use vehicles
operated under the licence to provide a service for the carriage of passengers
by road elsewhere than in the United Kingdom.

(3) Subsection (2) applies to a road service licence covering motor vehicles
so constructed and equipped as to be suitable for carrying more than nine
persons including the driver and intended for that purpose, other than

(a)motor vehicles constructed or adapted for the carriage of not more than 17
persons including the driver and used, or intended to be used, in the course
of a business whose main object is other than that of carrying passengers; and

(b)motor vehicles used by an Education and Library Board in the carrying out
of the functions of that Board under the Education and Libraries (Northern
Ireland) Order 1972.

(4) Subsection (2)(a) and (b) shall not apply in relation to an application
for a road service licence by a person who satisfies the Department that he is
an exempt person.]

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TRANSPORT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 5