The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 3113

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998

Made

11th December 1998

Laid before Parliament

11th December 1998

Coming into force

1st January 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 49 and 51 of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999.

Preliminary

2.  The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988(2) shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Amendment of regulation 20

3.  In regulation 20(1)(g) after the words “the Construction and Use Regulations” there shall be inserted “or of the Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) Regulations 1998(3)”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Larry Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

11th December 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make a consequential amendment to the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1998 to take account of the Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) Regulations 1998, which contain new provisions as to the weight of heavy goods vehicles.

(1)

1988 c. 52; section 49 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), Schedule 4, paragraph 52.

(2)

S.I. 1988/1478; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1994/328, 1997/263.

(3)

S.I. 1998/3111.