33Authorisation standard—applicants

33 Authorisation standard—applicants

33 Authorisation standard—applicants

(1) For the purposes of section 31(6) of the Act, it is a standard for authorisation that the applicant has not, within the period of 12 months preceding the application, made an application for an authorisation under the Act, or for an accreditation or authorisation under the Passenger Transport Act 1990 or the Passenger Transport Act 2014, that has been refused.

(2) For the purposes of section 31(6) of the Act, it is a standard for authorisation that the applicant has not had—

(a) an accreditation, or an authorisation to operate a taxi-cab network, under the Passenger Transport Act 1990 cancelled, or the person’s most recent application for any such accreditation or authorisation refused, on the basis that the applicant was not considered to be of good repute and in all other respects a fit and proper person to be accredited or authorised, or

(b) an accreditation to operate a public passenger service under the Passenger Transport Act 2014 cancelled, or the person’s most recent application for any such accreditation refused, on the basis that the applicant was not considered to be a fit and proper person to be responsible for the management of a public passenger service.