The Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) Order 1991

Visiors' driving permits

2.  In Article 2 (visitors' driving permits) of the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1975(1)—

(a) in paragraph (1) afetr the words “a motor vehicle of any class” there shall be inserted the words “other than a large goods vehicle or a passenger-carrying vehicle”;

(b) in paragraph (2) for the words “public service vehicle or heavy goods vehicle”, in each place where they occur, there shall be submitted the words “large goods vehicle or passenger-carrying vehicle” and for the words “either of such a licence as is required by section 22 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(2), or of such a licence as is required by section 110 of the said Act of 1988(3)” there shall be substituted the words “of a large goods vehicle driver’s licence or a passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence”;

(c) in paragraph (3)(a) and (b) for the words “public service vehicle”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “passenger-carrying vehicle” and for the words “such a licence as is required by section 22 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981” there shall be substituted the words “a passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence”; and

(d) in paragraph (7) after the definition of “public service vehicle” there shall be inserted the following definition:—

“and “large goods vehicle”, “passenger-carrying vehicle”, “large goods vehicle driver’s licence” and “passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence” have the same meaning as in Part IV of the Road Traffic Act 1988”.

(1)

S.I. 1975/1208; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1989/993.

(2)

1981 c. 14; section 22 was repealed by section 16 of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22) coming into force on 1st April 1991 (S.I. 1990/2610).

(3)

On that date section 110 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52) was repealed by the said section 16, and Part IV was replaced by a new Part IV substituted by section 2 of the said Act of 1989.