The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2008

Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 1038

Road Traffic

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2008

Made

1st April 2008

Laid before Parliament

8th April 2008

Coming into force

16th May 2008

The Secretary of State for Transport makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 97(1) and 105(1) and (4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1) and by virtue of the Department for Transport (Driver Licensing and Vehicle Registration Fees) Order 2003(2) and with the approval of the Treasury(3).

The Secretary of State for Transport has consulted with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

(1)

1988 c.52 (in these footnotes the “1988 Act”); see section 108(1) for the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”. Section 97(1) was amended by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c.22), sections 6, 7 and 16, Schedule 3, paragraph 9, and Schedule 6; by the Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995 (c.13), section 10 and Schedule 2, paragraph 2; by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974), regulation 2 and Schedule 1, paragraph 6; and by the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (c.32), sections 78 and 91 and Schedule 5, paragraphs 17 and 21. Section 105(4) was amended by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1420) (in these footnotes the “1998 Regulations”), regulations 2 and 10.

(2)

S.I. 2003/2994, amended by S.I. 2008/908.

(3)

As required by section 105(4) of the 1988 Act.