The Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) (Amendment) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 1593

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) (Amendment) Order 2002

Made

17th June 2002

Coming into force

21st June 2002

The Secretary of State for Transport, being no longer satisfied that satisfactory provision is made by the laws of Kenya as respects the grant of driving licences to drive motor vehicles and having consulted representative organisations in accordance with section 108(3) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 108(2) of that Act hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) (Amendment) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 21st June 2002.

Revocation of the designation of Kenya

2.  Kenya shall cease to be designated for the purposes of the definition of “exchangeable licence” in section 108(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

Amendment of Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) Order 1984

3.  In the Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) Order 1984(2), in article 2, the word “Kenya” shall be omitted.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

David Jamieson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Transport

17th June 2002

Explanatory Note

(This Note is not part of the Order)

The Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) Order 1984 designates various countries and territories as countries and territories who have satisfactory provision for the issue of driving licences. A person who holds such a licence may exchange their licence for a corresponding British licence. The effect of this Order is to remove Kenya from the list of countries and territories so designated. The holder of a Kenyan driving licence will therefore no longer be able to exchange that licence for a corresponding British one.

(1)

1988 c. 52. Subsection (1) of section 108 was amended, subsection (2) was substituted and subsections (2A) and (2B) were inserted by the Deregulation (Exchangeable Driving Licences) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1917). In subsection (1) see the definition of “exchangeable licence”.

(2)

S.I. 1984/672.