(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1 sections 1, 2 and 7 of the M1Road Traffic (Foreign Vehicles) Act 1972 shall be amended as shown in Schedule 3 to this Act (the amendments being to extend powers of inspection and control of vehicles by means of spot checks for mechanical defect or overload and restrictions on further use of a vehicle found in breach of the relevant Acts and regulations).
(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54, SIF 107:1), s. 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 4 paras. 1–3)
F2S. 9(2) repealed by Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54, SIF 107:1), s. 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 4 paras. 1–3)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of ss. 9, 15(5), 16, 22, 24(4) and Schs. 3 and 4 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
Marginal Citations
In section 96 of the 1968 Act (restrictions on drivers’ hours), after subsection (11A) (added by the M2) European Communities Act 1972, with a view to penalising contraventions of the applicable Community rules), there shall be inserted—
“(11B)But a person shall not be liable to be convicted under subsection (11A) if—
(a)he proves the matters specified in paragraph (i) of subsection (11); or
(b)being charged as the offender’s employer or a person to whose orders the offender was subject, he proves the matters specified in paragraph (ii) of that subsection.”
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2The text of ss. 9, 15(5), 16, 22, 24(4) and Schs. 3 and 4 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
Marginal Citations