The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 166

ROAD TRAFFIC

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Made

31st January 1992

Laid before Parliament

6th February 1992

Coming into force

1st March 1992

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 92(2), 105 and 108(1)(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(2), and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st March 1992.

2.  Regulation 6 (Disabilities) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990(3) shall be amended by the substitution for paragraph (1)(b)(ii) of the following paragraphs—

“(ii) in the case of a person who did not hold an existing licence on 1st January 1983 but who held a licence or an existing licence on 1st March 1992, the visual acuity is worse than 6/9 in the better eye and worse than 6/12 in the other eye and, if corrective lenses are worn, the uncorrected acuity in each eye is worse than 3/60, or

(iii) in any other case, the visual acuity is worse than 6/9 in the better eye or worse than 6/12 in the other eye or, if corrective lenses have tobe worn to ensure that the visual acuity in one eye or both eyes is no worse than 6/9 in the better eye and 6/12 in the other eye, the uncorrected acuity in each eye is worse than 3/60;”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Christopher Chope

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

31st January 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 6 of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990 so that a person who has abnormal sight in one or both eyes and who does not fall within sub-paragraph (i) of regulation 6(1)(b) has a relevant disability for the purposes of the Road Traffic Act 1988 if—

(a) in the case of a person who, on the coming into force of these Regulations, holds a licence entitling him to drive large goods or passenger-carrying vehicles—

(i) the visual acuity in his better eye is worse than 6/9, and

(ii) the visual acuity in his poorer eye is worse than 6/12, and

(iii) in the case of a person who wears glasses or contact lenses, the uncorrected acuity in each of his eyes is worse than 3/60;

(b) in any other case—

(i) the visual acuity in his better eye is worse than 6/9, or

(ii) the visual acuity in his poorer eye is worse than 6/12, or

(iii) in the case of a person who has to wear glasses or contact lenses to ensure that the visual acuity in his better eye is no worse than 6/9 and/or that the visual acuity in his poorer eye is no worse than 6/12, the uncorrected acuity in each of his eyes is no worse than 3/60.

(1)

See the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(2)

1988 c. 52.

(3)

S.I. 1990/2612; there are no relevant amending instruments.