The Motor Cycles (Eye Protectors) (Amendment) Regulations 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 675

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Motor Cycles (Eye Protectors) (Amendment) Regulations 1987

Made

7th April 1987

Laid before Parliament

22nd April 1987

Coming into force

1st July 1987

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 33AA of the Road Traffic Act 1972(1), and now vested in him(2), and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 199(2) of the said Act of 1972, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Cycles (Eye Protectors) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st July 1987.

2.  The Motor Cycles (Eye Protectors) Regulations 1985(3) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

3.  In regulation 4, the word “or” shall be deleted after paragraph (b) and inserted after paragraph (c), and the following paragraph shall be added—

“(d) he is in the armed forces of the Crown, on duty and wearing an eye protector supplied to him as part of his service equipment.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Peter Bottomley

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

7th April 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Motor Cycles (Eye Protectors) Regulations 1985 to provide for a further exemption from the requirement of those Regulations and section 33AA(3) of the Road Traffic Act 1972 that if a person driving or riding on a motor cycle on a road should use an eye protector it should be of a type prescribed in the Regulations. The exemption is for any person in the armed services who is on duty and wearing an eye protector supplied to him as part of his service equipment.

(1)

1972 c. 20; section 33AA was inserted by section 57 of the Transport Act 1982 (c. 49).

(2)

S.I. 1979/571 and 1981/238.

(3)

S.I. 1985/1593.