The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1997

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 1997/669 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 846

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1997

Made

14th March 1997

Laid before Parliament

17th March 1997

Coming into force

as to regulations 1 and 2

31st March 1997

as to regulation 3

1st April 1997

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 105(1) and 108(1)(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(2), after consulting with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force—

(a) as to regulations 1 and 2 on 31st March 1997, and

(b) as to regulation 3 on 1st April 1997.

2.  Regulation 4(3) of the Driving Licences (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997(3) is hereby revoked.

3.  For regulation 3(2)(a)(i) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996(4) there shall be substituted—

“(i) surrendered to the Secretary of State or is revoked otherwise than by notice under section 93(1) or (2) of the Traffic Act (revocation because of disability or prospective disability), or”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

John Bowis

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

14th March 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996 by modifying the provision which determines, for the purpose of interpreting those regulations, when a licence ceases to be in force. They substitute a new provision for regulation 4(3) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997, which is defectively drafted and which would otherwise come into force on 1st April 1997.

(1)

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

(2)

1988 c. 52.

(3)

S.I. 1997/669.

(4)

S.I. 1996/2824.