Commentary Part 7: Miscellaneous provisions Section 125: Vehicles authorised to be used under operator’s licence
310.Section 5(6) of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 (c.23) makes it unlawful for an operator to use a vehicle which is not specified in that operator’s licence unless notice of the vehicle, together with payment of the prescribed fee, has been made, within one month, to the traffic commissioner. Section 125 amends that subsection, and makes a consequential amendment to subsection (7), to provide for situations where no such fee is prescribed.
311.Section 125 also amends section 263 of the TA 2000, which would substitute section 5(6) of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 but has not yet been brought into force. Section 125: