Part 1: Haulage Policy Background Section 11: Licensing of operators in Great Britain
Section 11 inserts new section 3A into the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 (the "1995 Act") to allow the Secretary of State to grant a temporary exemption to an operator established outside the United Kingdom from the requirement to hold an operator’s licence in an emergency or to allow some other special need to be dealt with. In effect, this allows exemptions from permits for foreign vehicles in the same way as section 3 does for UK vehicles.
	Subsections (2) to (3) of new section 3A enable a temporary exemption to be granted by a notice in writing to the operator or by publishing a notice specifying the class of operators to which the temporary exemption applies. The notice must specify the vehicle or class of vehicles and the transport operation to which the exemption applies.
	Subsection (5) of section 11 amends section 4 of the 1995 Act in order to clarify that the power for the traffic commissioner to grant an exemption from carrying an operator’s licence may be granted by publishing a notice.
	Subsection (7) updates the list of offences that must be notified to a traffic commissioner on application for an operator’s licence, replacing offences under the International Road Haulage Permits Act 1975 with offence in this Act.