The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 170

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000

Made

3rd June 2000

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

7th June 2000

Coming into force

1st July 2000

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and after consultation with the Council on Tribunals in accordance with section 21(7E) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st July 2000.

(2) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Regulations 2000(2).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3.  In regulation 2 (interpretation) of the principal Regulations–

(a) in paragraph (1) in the definition of “disabled person’s badge” after “means” there shall be inserted, “, subject to paragraph (1A),”; and

(b) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted–

“(1A) For the purposes of regulations 12 to 16, the definition of “disabled person’s badge” in paragraph (1) shall include a badge issued under Regulations having effect in England or Wales under section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970.”

SARAH BOYACK

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

3rd June 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/59).

Regulation 3 has the effect of enabling disabled person’s badges issued under Regulations made under section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 in England and Wales to be displayed in Scotland as if they were badges issued by a local authority in Scotland.

(1)

1970 c. 44; section 21 was amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Schedule 30; by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Schedule 14; by the Transport Act 1982 (c. 49), section 68; by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27), Schedule 13, paragraph 11; by the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 5; by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), section 35, Schedule 8; by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19), Schedule 10, paragraph 8; and by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), Schedule 13, paragraph 86. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(2)

S.S.I. 2000/59.