Part 7Miscellaneous provisions

Goods vehicles

126Vehicles used without operator’s licence: power to return detained vehicles

(1)Schedule 1A to the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 (c. 23) (detention of vehicles used without operator’s licence) is amended as follows.

(2)For paragraph 8 (power to make regulations for return of detained vehicle) substitute—

8Regulations may make provision authorising a vehicle detained by virtue of paragraph 2 to be returned to the owner, in prescribed circumstances, without the need for any application under paragraph 9..