The Public Service Vehicles (Temporary Driving Entitlement) Regulations 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 1844

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Public Service Vehicles (Temporary Driving Entitlement) Regulations 1989

Made

6th October 1989

Laid before Parliament

13th October 1989

Coming into force

8th November 1989

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 10(2), (4) and (6) of Part II of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989(1), and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Vehicles (Temporary Driving Entitlement) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 8th November 1989.

2.  The prescribed period, for the purposes of paragraph 10(2) of Part II of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989, during which a person may drive, or be employed to drive, a public service vehicle on a road without being the holder of a licence under section 22 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(2) to drive such a vehicle, is one month beginning with the date on which the test of competence to drive was passed.

3.  The prescribed period, for the purposes of paragraph 10(4) of Part II of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989, during which a person who takes a test of competence to drive, for the purposes of an application for the grant of a licence, is guilty of an offence, is 21 days beginning with the date on which the application for the licence was made.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Robert Atkins

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

6th October 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe certain periods of time for the purposes of paragraph 10 of Part II of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989.

The period of time during which a person may drive a public service vehicle without a public service vehicle driver’s licence is prescribed as one month beginning with the date on which that person passes his test of competence to drive.

The period of time, after an application for a licence to drive public service vehicles has been made, during which it is an offence for a person to take a test of competence to drive is prescribed as 21 days beginning with the date of the application for that licence.

(1)

1989 c. 22.

(2)

1981 c. 14.