The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

5.—(1) Section 108 (interpretation) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) for the definitions of “EEA Agreement” and “EEA State”(1) substitute—

““EEA agreement” and “EEA state” have the meaning given by Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978;”(2);

(b) after the definition of “licence” insert—

““light quadricycle” means a quadricycle referred to in Article 1(3)(a) of the motorcycle type approval Directive (within the meaning of Part 2 of this Act),”;

(c) for the definition of “moped” substitute—

““moped” does not include light quadricycles, but otherwise has the same meaning as in Directive 2006/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20th December 2006 on driving licences,”; and

(d) in the definition of “motor bicycle”, in paragraph (b), for “and” substitute “or”.

(3) After subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) In this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to the expiry of a licence is a reference to the time when it ceases to be in force (and “expired” is to be interpreted accordingly).”.

(1)

In section 108(1), the definitions of “EEA State” and EEA Agreement” were inserted by S.I. 1996/1974, Schedule 1, paragraph 19(2).

(2)

The definition “EEA State” was inserted into Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c.30) by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 26(1).