The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (2010 Act) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012 No. 247 (C. 22)

The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (2010 Act) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012 No. 247 (C. 22)

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2012 No. 247 (C. 22)

Road Traffic And Vehicles

The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (2010 Act) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012

Made

21st June 2012

The Department of the Environment makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 60(2) of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010(1).

Citation and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (2010 Act) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012.

(2) In this Order "the Act" means the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010.

Appointed day

2. The day appointed for the coming into operation of the provisions of the Act specified in the Schedule for the purpose of enabling the Department to make Regulations is 22nd June 2012.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 21st June 2012

Legal seal

Iain Greenway

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

Article 2

SCHEDULEProvisions coming into operation on 22nd June 2012 for the purposes only of making Regulations

Provisions of the ActSubject Matter
Section 1Operators' licences
Section 4Vehicles authorised to be used under operator's licence
Section 7Application for operators' licences
Section 8Notification of events subsequent to the making of an application
Section 9Publication by Department of notice of application for licence
Section 10Publication in locality affected of notice of application for licence
Section 11Objections to, and representations against, issue of operators' licences
Section 12Determination of applications for operators' licences
Section 13Determination where objections etc are made on environmental grounds
Section 16Variation of operators' licences
Section 17Publication of notice of applications for variation in any locality affected
Section 18Objection to, and refusal of, applications to vary operators' licences on environmental grounds
Section 20Conditions of licences
Section 27Periods of review for operating centres
Section 28Power to remove operating centres on review
Section 31Determinations as to environmental matters
Section 32Power of Department to hold inquiries
Section 34Review of decisions
Section 47Fees
Section 48Operators' licences not to be transferable
Section 49Certificates of qualification
Section 52Application of Act to holding companies and subsidiaries
Section 53Application of Act to partnerships
Schedule 1 and section 30 so far as it relates to itTransfer of operating centres
Schedule 2 and section 44 so far as it relates to itDetention of vehicle used without operator's licence

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings the provisions of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 ("the Act") listed in the Schedule into operation on 22nd June 2012 to enable the Department to make Regulations under the Act.