The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 1670

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made

9th July 1998

Laid before Parliament

10th July 1998

Coming into force

1st August 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 52(1)(a) and 60 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(1) and by virtue of the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 61(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

(1)

1981 c. 14. Section 52(1) was amended by the Transport Act 1985 (c. 67) (“the 1985 Act”), Schedule 1, paragraph 7, Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 4(14) and Schedule 8; and by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40), section 66(2). Section 60(1) was amended by the 1985 Act, section 134(2), Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 4(18) and Schedule 8; section 60(1A) was inserted by the 1985 Act, section 134(2), and section 61(2) was amended by the 1985 Act, Schedule 8.

(2)

S.I. 1988/643, which was made under section 102 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51). The relevant reference in S.I. 1988/643 is in Schedule 1, Table V, item 2A.