The Act Application for registration where partnership scheme in operation – inserted section 6K of the 1985 Act
166.Section 6K of the 1985 Act caters for situations where a partnership scheme has imposed an operational service standard on a local service and a person is either applying to be registered to provide that service or to vary an existing registration that they have in respect of that service.
167.The section requires the traffic commissioner to refuse such an application where the traffic commissioner considers that the applicant is unlikely to be able to comply with the service standard in relation to the services. The traffic commissioner does not have any discretion in this respect.