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Statutory Instruments
ROAD TRAFFIC
Made
8th November 1996
Laid before Parliament
11th November 1996
Coming into force
as to regulations 20 to 32 and Schedules 5 and 6, for the purposes of tests to be conducted on or after 1st January 1997
2nd December 1996
for the purposes of regulation 34(2)(a)(ii) and (4)(b) and Schedule 6
1st March 1997
for the purposes of regulation 39(6)
1st April 1997
for all other purposes
1st January 1997
The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by the following sections of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1), namely sections 88(5) and (6)(2), 89(2A), (3), (4), (5), (5A), (6), (7) and (9)(3), 91, 92(2) and (4)(4), 97(1), (3), (3A), (3B) and (4)(5), 98(2) and (4)(6), 99(1) and (1A)(7), 99A(3) and (4)(8), 101(2) and (3), 105(1), (2), (3) and (4)(9) and 108(1)(10), 114(1)(11), 115(1) and (3)(12), 115A(1)(13), 117(2A)(14), 118(4), 120, 121(15), 164(2)(16), 183(6)(17) and 192(1)(18), after consulting with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and, in the case of regulations 12, 27 and 31, with the approval of the Treasury(19), hereby makes the following Regulations:—
1988 c. 52. Relevant amendments are referred to where appropriate below. Amending statutes and instruments are referred to in the footnotes to these Regulations in the following manner: “the 1989 Act” means the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22); “the 1990 Regulations” means the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/144); “the 1991 Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) and “the 1996 Regulations” means the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974).
Subsection (6) was amended by the 1990 Regulations.
Subsections (2A) and (5A) were inserted by the 1989 Act, section 6; subsection (3) was amended by the 1991 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 63; subsection (4) was amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 8 and the 1996 Regulations; subsections (7) and (9) were amended by the 1996 Regulations. Subsection (4)(b) is to be read with the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/643), as amended by S.I. 1991/811, 1993/1601, 1995/1684 and 1996/1929, the relevant entries being items 5, 5A and 6 in Schedule 1, Table III.
Subsection (2) was amended by the 1996 Regulations.
Subsections (1) and (3) were amended by the 1989 Act, section 6(2) and the 1996 Regulations; subsections (3A) and (3B) were inserted by the 1989 Act, section 6(2) and subsection (3A) was amended by the 1996 Regulations; subsection (4) was amended by the 1996 Regulations.
Subsection (2) was amended by the 1989 Act, section 5(10); subsections (2) and (4) were amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 11; subsection (2) was amended by the 1990 Regulations.
Subsection (1) was amended by Schedule 3, paragraph 12, of the 1989 Act; subsection (1A) was inserted by section 2(2) of that Act.
Section 99A was inserted by the 1996 Regulations.
Subsection (2) was amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 14 and by the 1990 and 1996 Regulations.
See the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.
Sections 114, 115, 116 and 117 to 122 (Part IV of the Act) were substituted by the 1989 Act, section 2(1) and Schedule 2.
Section 114(1) was amended by the 1996 Regulations.
Section 115A was inserted by the 1996 Regulations. Subsection (3) was amended by the 1991 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 64 and the 1996 Regulations.
Subsection (2A) was inserted by the 1991 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 65.
See the definition of “prescribed”.
Amended by the 1991 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 68.
Inserted by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 23.
See the definition of “prescribed”.
See section 105(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.
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