
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the 
Public Service Vehicles (Traffic Regulation Conditions) Regulations 1986
and shall come into operation on 14th July 1986.
2 

(1) In these Regulations—
 “Notices and Proceedings”
has the meaning given by 
regulation 3 of the Public Service
Vehicles (Road Service Licences and Express Services) Regulations 1980; and
 “traffic authority”
and “traffic regulation conditions”
have the meanings given by 
subsections (15) and (1)
respectively of section 7.

(2) Any reference to a numbered section is
a reference to the section so numbered in the 
Transport Act 1985.
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Traffic regulation conditions may be determined for the purpose
(in addition to those set out in sections 7(6)(a)
, (b) and 
(c)) of regulating the roads to be used and
the manoeuvres to be performed when turning a vehicle in the provision of
any service.
4 
A traffic commissioner shall publish in Notices and Proceedings
notice of—
(1) any request for the determination, variation
or revocation of traffic regulation conditions except where the traffic commissioner
is satisfied that the request should be granted without delay;
(2) the name and address of the person making
such a request; and
(3) the determination, variation or revocation
of traffic regulation conditions and the date on which the conditions so determined
or varied have effect or (if revoked) cease to have effect.
5 
The prescribed period for the purposes of 
subsections (9) and (11) of section
7 shall be 28 days from the date of publication
in Notices and Proceedings on notice of—
(1) for subsection
(9), the request for determination of the conditions,
or
(2) for subsection
(11), the determination of the conditions.

6 

(1) An appeal under 
section 9 shall—
(a) state the reference number given by the
traffic commissioner to the relevant traffic regulation conditions, or, in
the case of an appeal against a refusal of a traffic commissioner to determine
traffic regulation conditions, the reference number given by him to the request;
and
(b) state the grounds on which it is made.

(2) Such an appeal shall be made so as to
be received by the Secretary of State before the expiry of 28 days commencing
with the day immediately following the date on which either—
(a) notice of the refusal by a traffic commissioner
to comply with a request to determine, vary or revoke any traffic regulation
conditions is sent to the person making the request; or
(b) notice of the determination, variation
or revocation of any such conditions is published in Notices and Proceedings.

(3) At the same time as he makes such an
appeal, the appellant shall send a copy of that appeal to—
(a) the traffic commissioner against whose
decision the appeal is made;
(b) if the traffic commissioner held an inquiry
in connection with that decision, any person who attended the inquiry and
made representations at it to the traffic commissioner; and
(c) any traffic authority (other than the
appellant) likely to be affected by the traffic regulation conditions.
(4) Where a traffic commissioner, in reliance
on section 7(10),
has determined any traffic regulation conditions without first holding an
inquiry, then the Secretary of State shall not determine an appeal until either—

(a) an inquiry has been held; or
(b) the period prescribed for the purposes
of section 7(11)
by regulation 5
of these Regulations has expired without any request for an inquiry being
made.
(5) On the determination of an appeal, the
Secretary of State shall give notice of his decision, and the reasons for
it, to the appellant.
7 
All notices, requests or appeals mentioned in these Regulations
shall be in writing, and any such notices as are referred to in 
regulation 6(2)(a) or (5)
of these Regulations shall be sent to the address last notified to the traffic
commissioner in question or (as the case may be) the Secretary of State by
the person making the request or appeal as his business address.
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(1) No period of time prescribed in these
Regulations shall include Christmas Day, Good Friday or any day which is a
bank holiday under the Banking
and Financial Dealings Act 1971.
(2) When a request or appeal referred to
in regulation 5 or 
6(2) of these Regulations is required to be
received by a traffic commissioner or the Secretary of State within a period
which expires on a day on which the principal office of the recipient is closed
for normal business, then that period shall be extended to include the next
day on which that office is open for such business.
John Moore
Secretary of State for Transport
20th June 1986Malcolm Rifkind
Secretary of State for Scotland
19th June 1986Nicholas Edwards
Secretary of State for Wales
19th June 1986