The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 669

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997

Made

6th March 1997

Laid before Parliament

10th March 1997

Coming into force

1st April 1997

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by the following provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1), namely sections 88(5) and (6)(2), 89(2A), (3), (4), (5), (5A), (6), (7) and (9)(3), 89A(3)(4), 92(2)(5), 94(4) and (5)(6), 97(1), (3), (3A) and (3B)(7), 98(2) and (4)(8), 99A(5) and (6)(9), 101(2) and (3), 105(10), 108(1)(11), 114(1)(12), (2) and (6), 121(13) and 192(1)(14) after consulting with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act and, in the case of regulations 16(3), 29 and 51 and Schedule 2, with the approval of the Treasury(15), hereby makes the following Regulations—

(1)

1988 c. 52. Relevant amendments are referred to where appropriate below. Amending statutes and instruments are referred to in the footnotes to these Regulations in the following manner:“the 1989 Act” means the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22),“the 1990 Regulations” means the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/144), “the 1991 Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) and“the 1996 Regulations” means the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974).

(2)

Subsection (6) was amended by the 1990 Regulations.

(3)

Subsection (2A) and (5A) were inserted by the 1989 Act, section 6; subsection (3) was amended by the 1991 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 63; subsection (4) was amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 8 and the 1996 Regulations; subsections (7) and (9) were amended by the 1996 Regulations. Subsection (4)(b) is to be read with the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/643), as amended by S.I. 1991/811, 1993/1601, 1995/1684, and 1996/1929, the relevant entries being items 5, 5A and 6 in Schedule 1, Table III.

(4)

Section 89A was inserted by the 1989 Act, section 4(4).

(5)

Subsection (2) was amended by the 1996 Regulations.

(6)

Subsections (4) and (5) were amended by the 1989 Act, section 5(7) and (8).

(7)

Subsections (1) and (3) were amended by the 1989 Act, section 6(2) and the 1996 Regulations; subsections (3A) and (3B) were inserted by the 1989 Act, section 6(2) and subsection (3A) was amended by the 1996 Regulations; subsection (4) was amended by the 1996 Regulations.

(8)

Subsection (2) was amended by the 1989 Act section 5(10) and the 1990 Regulations; subsections (2) and (4) were amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 11.

(9)

Section 99A was inserted by the 1996 Regulations.

(10)

Subsection (2) was amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 14 and by the 1990 and 1996 Regulations.

(11)

See the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(12)

Sections 114, 115, 116 and 117 to 122 (Part IV of the Act) were substituted by the 1989 Act, section 2(1) and Schedule 2. Section 114(1) was amended by the 1996 Regulations. Section 114(1) was amended by the 1996 Regulations.

(13)

See the definition of “prescribed”.

(14)

See the definition of “prescribed”.

(15)

See section 105(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.