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Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 3085

ROAD TRAFFIC

PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Heavy Goods and Public Service Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Made

8th December 1992

Laid before Parliament

9th December 1992

Coming into force

1st January 1993

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 1(1), 5(1)(a)(i) and 8 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989(2), and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with paragraph 8(4) of that Part of that Schedule, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Heavy Goods and Public Service Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.

2. Paragraph (1)(a) of regulation 7 (Revocation of licences) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Heavy Goods and Public Service Vehicles) Regulations 1990(3) shall be amended by the substitution of "liability to epileptic seizures" for "an epileptic attack since attaining the age of 5 years".

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Kenneth Carlisle

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

8th December 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 7(1)(a) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Heavy Goods and Public Service Vehicles) Regulations 1990. An epileptic attack since attaining the age of 5 is no longer a physical disability which is prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 5(1)(a)(i) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989. It is replaced by a liability to epileptic seizures.

(1)

See the definition of "prescribed".

(3)

S.I. 1990/2611.


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