The Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 802 (C.25)

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1990

Made

28th March 1990

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on him bysection 17(2) of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989(1), and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1990.

2.  The provisions of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems)Act 1989 specified in the Schedule to this Order shall come into force on 1st June 1990.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Robert Atkins

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

28th March 1990

Article 2

SCHEDULE PROVISIONS OF THE ROAD TRAFFIC (DRIVER LICENSING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS) ACT 1989 COMING INTO FORCE ON 1st JUNE 1990

Provisions of the Act	Subject matter
(1) Section 1(6) (so far as it relates to paragraph 11 of Part II of Schedule 2 to the Act)	Provision giving effect to paragraph 11 of Part II of Schedule 1 to the Act (Existing HGV and PSV Drivers' Licences)
(2) Section 1(7) (so far as it relates to the definition of “the 1981 Act” and “the 1988 Act”)	Interpretation provision
(3) Section 3	Exceptions to prohibition on driving without a licence
(4) Section 5 except subsection (1), in so far as it relates to subsection (5), and subsection (5)(2)	Refusal or revocation of licences on grounds of physical unfitness
(5) Section 7 (so far as it relates to those paragraphs of Schedule 3 to the Act referred to in item 9 below)	Provision giving effect to certain paragraphs in Schedule 3 to the Act (Driving Licences: Minor, Consequential, and Further Amendments)
(6) Part II (sections 8 to 15)	Driver Information Systems
(7) Section 16 (so far as it relates to those parts of Schedule 6 to the Act referred to in item 12 below)	Provision giving effect to certain provisions in Schedule 6 to the Act (Repeals)
(8) Schedule 1, paragraph 11	A transitory provision allowing the holder of a heavy goods or public service vehicle driver’s licence to drive such a vehicle notwithstanding that his licence under Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1988(3) does not authorise him to do so
(9) Schedule 3, paragraphs 7, 8(b)(ii) and (iii), 9(b) and (d), 12(b) and (c), 14, 15(a), (e) (so far as it relates to the definition of “Northern Ireland driving licence” and “Northern Ireland licence”) and (f), 16, 17, 19, 24, 25(4), 27(d)(5), 28(a) and (b)(6) and 30(a)(7)	Driving Licences: Minor, consequential, and further amendments to the Road Traffic Act 1988 and the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988(8)
(10) Schedule 4	Driver Information System Licences: Application of Acts to Licence Holders
(11) Schedule 5	Driver Information Systems: Undertakers' Works
(12) Schedule 6 (so far as it relates— (a) the repeal in section 97(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 of the words “, on payment of such fee (if any) as may be prescribed,”, (b) the repeal of section 45(3) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988, and (c) the repeal in Part I of Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 of the entry relating to section 45 of that Act)	Repeals

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 1st June 1990 the provisions of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 relating to driving licences and driver information systems specified in the Schedule to the Order.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 have been brought into force by commencement order made before the date of this Order:

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. No.
s.1(6) (partially), s.7 (partially), s.17, para. 10 of Part II of Sch. 1, para. 26 and paras. 29 and 30(d) (partially) of Sch. 3.	8.11.1989	1989/1843

(1)

1989 c. 22.

(2)

Section 5(4) and (10)(b) is as amended by S.I. 1990/144, Schedule 3, paragraph 1.

(3)

1988 c. 52.

(4)

Paragraph 25 is as amended by S.I. 1990/144, Schedule 3, paragraph 3(3)

(5)

Paragraph 27(d) is as amended by S.I. 1990/144, Schedule 3, paragraph 3(4).

(6)

Paragraph 28(a) and (b) is as amended by S.I. 1990/144, Schedule 3, paragraph 3(5)(a) and (b).

(7)

Paragraph 30(a) is as amended by S.I. 1990/144, Schedule 3, paragraph 3(6).

(8)

1988 c. 53.