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

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1975 to take account of the bringing into force on 1st April 1991 of sections 1(1) and 2(1) of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 by the Road traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (Commencment No.4) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/2610). Those sections abolish the requirement for special licences for drivers of lorries and buses as heavy goods vehicles under Part IV of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52) and as an addition to the requirement for ordinary driving licences under Part III of the 1988 Act. They replace this by a unified system of licensing of such vehicles under Part III of the 1988 Act ass large goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles supplemented by a new Part IV of the 1988 Act set out in Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act.