The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 20

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made

8th January 1998

Laid before Parliament

9th January 1998

Coming into force

except for regulations 11 and 20

31st January 1998

regulations 11 and 20

1st April 1998

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 88(5) and (6)(1), 89(3), (5) and (7)(2), 97(3) and (3A)(3), 101(2) and (3), 105(4), 108(1)(5), 114(1)(6), 115(1) and (3)(7), 115A(1)(8), 117(1) and (2A)(9), 120 and 192(1)(10) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(11), after consulting with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

(1)

Subsection (6) was amended by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/144) (“the 1990 Regulations”).

(2)

Subsection (3) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) (“the 1991 Act”), Schedule 4, paragraph 63; subsection (7) was amended by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22) (“the 1989 Act”), Schedule 3, paragraph 8, and by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974) (“the 1996 Regulations”).

(3)

Subsection (3) was amended by the 1989 Act, section 6(2) and Schedule 6 and by the 1996 Regulations; subsection (3A) was inserted by the 1989 Act, section 6(2) and was amended by the 1996 Regulations.

(4)

Subsection (2) was amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 14, by the 1990 Regulations and by the 1996 Regulations.

(5)

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

(6)

Sections 114, 115, 117 and 120 were substituted by the 1989 Act, section 2(1) and Schedule 2. Section 114(1) was amended by the 1996 Regulations.

(7)

Subsection (3) was amended by the 1991 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 64, and by the 1996 Regulations.

(8)

Section 115A was inserted by the 1996 Regulations.

(9)

Subsection (2A) was inserted by the 1991 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 65.

(10)

See the definition of “prescribed”.

(11)

1988 c. 52.