Qualifications for drivers of private hire vehicles
2. In section 51 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (licensing of drivers of private hire vehicles), in subsection (1) as inserted by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996(1), in paragraph (b) after “section 99A(1)” there shall be inserted “or section 109(1)”(2).
S.I. 1996/1974 (hereinafter in these footnotes referred to as “the 1996 Regulations”). Section 51 was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the 1996 Regulations, by the substitution of a new subsection (1)(b) and the insertion of a new subsection (1) after subsection (1A). Subsection (1A) was inserted by section 47(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40).
Section 109(1) was amended by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22), Schedule 3, paragraph 16.