
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the 
Public Service Vehicles (Traffic Commissioners: Publication and Inquiries)
Regulations 1986 and shall come into operation
on 26th October 1986.
2 
In these Regulations:
 “the 1981 Act”
means the Public Passenger
Vehicles Act 1981;
 “the 1985 Act”
means the 
Transport Act 1985;
 “Notices and Proceedings”
 has the meaning given in 
regulation 3 of these Regulations;
and
 “traffic regulation conditions”
 has the meaning given in 
section 7(1) of the 1985 Act.
3 
Every traffic commissioner shall publish not
less frequently than once a fortnight a statement to be known as “Notices
and Proceedings” which shall include the following:
(1) 
(a) in respect of any registration under 
section 6 of the 1985 Act which has not been
cancelled prior to publication, a notice containing—
(i) the name and address of the person who
made the application and the serial number allocated to the registration by
the traffic commissioner;
(ii) the starting date of the service;
(iii) the terminal points of the service;

(iv) a description of the route by reference
to the principal places served;
(v) an indication of the frequency of the
service and of the days on which it will run; and
(vi) the types of vehicle to be used;
(b) in respect of a variation or cancellation
under section 6
of the 1985 Act of such a registration, a notice containing—
(i) the name and address of the person who
made the application and the serial number allocated to the registration by
the traffic commissioner;
(ii) details of the variation in the registered
particulars, or a statement of the cancellation of the registration; and
(iii) the effective date of the variation
or cancellation;
(2) in respect of PSV operators' licences,
notices as to—
(a) applications for the grant of such licences
(including names and addresses of applicants) and decisions on such applications;

(b) the exercise of any of the traffic commissioner's
powers under section 17(1)
or (2) of the 1981 Act (revocation,
suspension etc. of licences) 
(c) the exercise of any of the traffic commissioner's
powers under section 16(1), 
(3), (5) or 
(6) of the 1981 Act or 
section 26(1), (3)
or (5) of the 1985 Act (conditions
attached to licences); and
(d) the exercise of the traffic commissioner's
powers under section 28(1)
of the 1985 Act (disqualification of PSV operators);
(3) in respect of any determination under 
section 111 of the 1985 Act (unregistered and
unreliable local services: reduction of fuel duty grant), a notice containing—

(a) the name of the operator; and
(b) a statement as to whether the determination
is that the operator failed to operate a local service registered under 
section 6 of the 1985 Act, or to a significant
extent operated a local service in contravention of that section; and
(4) a notice as to the date and place at
which the proposes to hold any inquiry into any application or proposal under
the 1981 Act or the 1985 Act.
4 

(1) Copies of “Notices and Proceedings”
shall be made available by the traffic commissioner by whom they were issued
for inspection at his offices free of charge.
(2) The fee for any copy of “Notices
and Proceedings” supplied pursuant to 
section 5(2)(b) of the 1981 Act shall be £2.50.

5 
Every traffic commissioner shall keep:
(1) a duplicate copy of every licence granted
by him under the 1981 Act or the 1985 Act, together with a record of the period
of its validity and any change in that period;
(2) a record of every condition (including
traffic regulation conditions) attached to any such licence and the date of
any alteration thereto or removal thereof;
(3) a record of all traffic regulation conditions
determined by him; and
(4) a record of the prescribed particulars
of all services registered with him under section
6 of the 1985 Act, and of all variations and
cancellations of such registrations.
6 
The publication of the date of any inquiry shall
not prevent a traffic commissioner from postponing or adjourning the consideration
of any matter to an inquiry at a later date.
7 
A traffic commissioner may restrict in such
manner as he directs attendance of the public at any inquiry so far as that
inquiry relates to the financial position of any person, provided that a member
of the Council on Tribunals or its Scottish Committee shall be entitled to
attend notwithstanding that attendance is restricted.
8 

(1) Subject to 
paragraph (3) of this regulation, the circumstances
in which a traffic commissioner may make an order pursuant to 
section 54(5) of the 1981 Act as to the payment
of costs by a party to an inquiry are that the party has been responsible
for frivolous, vexatious, improper or unreasonable conduct in relation to
the inquiry.
(2) The maximum amount of costs that may
be ordered to be paid under such an order shall be the sum of £125 in
respect of each day or part of a day on which the inquiry is held or would
have been held if it had not been cancelled or postponed at short notice due
to the act or default of the party against whom the order for payment of costs
is made.
(3) A traffic commissioner may not make an
order as to the payment of costs by a party without first giving that party
an opportunity of making representations against the making of the order.

9 

(1) In 
regulation 2(1) of the Public Service
Vehicles (Traffic Regulation Conditions) Regulations 1986,
there shall be substituted, in the definition of “Notices and
Proceedings”, for the words “
regulation 3 of the Public Service
Vehicles (Road Service Licences and Express Services) Regulations 1980”
, the words “regulation
2 of the Public Service Vehicles (Traffic
Commissioners: Publication and Inquiries) Regulations 1986”
.
(2) In 
rule 2(1) of the Transport Tribunal
Rules 1986, there shall be substituted in 
sub-paragraph (b) of the definition of 
“relevant publication”, for the words “
regulation 7 of the Public Service
Vehicles (Road Service Licences and Express Services) Regulations 1980”
, the words “regulation
3 of the Public Service Vehicles (Traffic
Commissioners: Publication and Inquiries) Regulations 1986”
.
John Moore
Secretary of State for Transport
22nd September 1986