The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 4) 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 sections 89(3), 105, 108(1)[^f00001] and 192(1)[^f00002] and (3) of the Road Traffic Act 1988[^f00003], and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

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These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.

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• (1) The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987[^f00004] shall be amended in accordance with the following provision of this regulation.

• (2) In Schedule 3 (Categories of motor vehicles for driving test purposes), in column (2) (Class of Vehicle included in the Category), in the entry describing the class of vehicle included in category C1 plus E, after the words “with a maximum authorised mass exceeding 750 kg” there shall be inserted “where the maximum authorised mass of the combination does not exceed 8.25 tonnes”.

Signed

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)

hese Regulations amend Schedule 3 to the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987 by restricting the classes of vehicle included in category C1 plus E to vehicle and trailer combinations with a maximum authorised mass of no more than 8.25 tonnes: see regulation 2(2) of these Regulations. Formerly there was no such weight restriction.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: See the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

[^f00002]: See the definition of “prescribed”.

[^f00003]: 1988 c. 52; section 89(3) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), Schedule 4, paragraph 63, which came into force on 1st July 1992; section 105 was amended by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22) (“the 1989 Act”), Schedule 3, paragraph 14, which came into force on 1st June 1990 and by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/144); and section 192(3) was amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 24, which came into force on 1st June 1990.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1987/1378: the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1990/842, 1990/1396 and 1991/485.