The Driving Licences (Designation of Relevant External Law) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 2590

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Driving Licences (Designation of Relevant External Law) Order 2002

Made

14th October 2002

Coming into force

1st November 2002

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 89(2)(c) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Driving Licences (Designation of Relevant External Law) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st November 2002.

Designation of relevant external law: Guernsey

2.  The law for the time being in force in Guernsey which corresponds to Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1988 is hereby designated as one which makes satisfactory provision for the granting of licences to drive all classes of goods vehicle and all classes of passenger-carrying vehicle.

Signed by Authority of the Secretary of State

David Jamieson

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Transport

14th October 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the law of Guernsey as one which makes satisfactory provision for the granting of licences to drive goods and passenger-carrying vehicles.

(1)

1988 c. 52. Section 88(8), which includes the definition of “relevant external law”, was inserted by section 3(5) of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22); section 89(2) was substituted by section 4(3) of that Act and amended by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974).