Motor Vehicles (Exchangeable Licences) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2002 No. 328

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Motor Vehicles (Exchangeable Licences) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002

Made

24th October 2002

Coming into operation

9th December 2002

The Department of the Environment, being no longer satisfied that satisfactory provision is made by the laws of Kenya as respects the grant of driving licences to drive motor vehicles, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 19D(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Exchangeable Licences) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 9th December 2002.

Revocation of the designation of Kenya

2.  Kenya shall cease to be designated for the purposes of the definition of “exchangeable licence” in Article 19D(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(2).

Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Exchangeable Licences) Order (Northern Ireland) 1994

3.  In the Motor Vehicles (Exchangeable Licences) Order (Northern Ireland) 1994(3), in Article 2, the word “Kenya” shall be omitted.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 24th October 2002.

L.S.

J. Ritchie

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

The Motor Vehicles (Exchangeable Licences) Order (Northern Ireland) 1994 (S.R. 1994 No. 364) designates various countries and territories as countries and territories who have satisfactory provision for the issue of driving licences. A person who holds such a licence may exchange their licence for a corresponding Northern Ireland licence. The effect of this Order is to remove Kenya from the list of countries and territories so designated. The holder of a Kenyan driving licence will therefore no longer be able to exchange that licence for a corresponding Northern Ireland one.

(1)

S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for definition of “Department”; Article 19D was substituted by Schedule 1 to S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3) and amended by paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to S.R. 1996 No. 426

(2)

The definition of “exchangeable licence” was substituted by paragraph 12(2)(e) of Schedule 1 to S.R. 1996 No. 426

(3)

S.R. 1994 No. 364