Statutory Instruments
1995 No. 1162

ROAD TRAFFIC
PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT
The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Made
28th April 1995

Laid before Parliament
1st May 1995

Coming into force
29th May 1995

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 91(b), 105(1) and (3), 108(1)(1) and 192(1)(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(3), after consulting 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 1995 and shall come into force on 29th May 1995.

2.—(1) The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990(4) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 21(1), for “five clear days” there shall be substituted “ten clear days”.

3.  Regulation 2 shall not apply where notice cancelling an appointment for a test is given on or before 28th May 1995 whether or not such notice expires after that date.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport.

Steven Norris
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
28th April 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend regulation 21 of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990. They alter, from 5 clear days to 10, the period of notice which must be given by a candidate who cancels an appointment for a driving test to enable the Secretary of State to repay the test fee.


(1)
See the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(2)
See the definition of “prescribed”.

(3)
1988 c. 52.

(4)
S.I. 1990/2612.