The Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 2610 (C.70)

ROAD TRAFFIC

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1990

Made

14th December 1990

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 17(2) of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989(1) and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Order:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1990.

2.  The provisions of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 specified in the Schedule to this Order shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Christopher Chope

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

14th December 1990

Article 2

SCHEDULE THE PROVISIONS OF THE ROAD TRAFFIC (DRIVER LICENSING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS) ACT 1989 COMING INTO FORCE ON 1st APRIL 1991

Provisions of the Act	Subject Matter
(1) Section 1 (so far as not already in force)	Abolition of special licences for driving HGVs and PSVs
(2) Section 2	Special provisions relating to licensing of drivers of LGVs and PCVs
(3) Section 4	Tests of competence and related conditions of entitlement to driving licences
(4) Section 5 (so far as not already in force)	Relevant driving tests under external laws which entitle persons with prescribed disabilities to have licences
(5) Section 7 (so far as not already in force)	Driving licences: minor, consequential, and further amendments
(6) Section 16 (so far as not already in force)	Repeals
(7) Schedule 1 (so far as not already in force)	Existing HGV and PSV drivers' licences
(8) Schedule 2	Licensing of drivers of large goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles
(9) Schedule 3 (so far as not already in force)	Driving licences: minor, consequential, and further amendments
(10) Schedule 6 (so far as not already in force except the repeal of paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989)	Repeals

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force the provisions of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 specified in the Schedule to the Order. The principal effect of the bringing into force of these provisions is to abolish the separate licensing of drivers of heavy goods vehicles under Part IV of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52) and public service vehicles under section 22 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 (c. 14) and to provide for the licensing of the drivers of such vehicles as large goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles under Part III of the 1988 Act supplemented by the new Part IV of that Act contained in Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 have been brought into force by commencement orders made before the date of this Order:—

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. No
s.1(6) (partially), s.7 (partially), s.17, para. 10 of Part II of Sch. 1, para. 26 and paras. 29 and 30(d) (partially) of Sch. 3.	8.11.1989	1989/1843
s.1(6) (partially), s.1(7) (partially), s.3, s.5 (partially), s.7, (partially), Part II, s.16, (partially), para. 11 of Sch. 1, paras. 7, 8 (partially),9 (partially), 11 (partially), 12 (partially), 14, 15 (partially), 16, 17, 19, 24, 25, 27 (partially),28 (partially) and 30 (partially) of Sch. 3, Sch. 4, Sch. 5 and Sch. 6 (partially).	1.6.1990	1990/802
s.6, 7 (partially), 16 (partially), paras. 6, 10, 11(c), 15(g) and 18(b), (c) and (d) of Sch. 3, Sch. 6 (partially)	8.11.1990	1990/2228

(1)

1989 c. 22.