The Driving Licences (Designation of Relevant External Law) Order 1994

Made: 22nd January 1994

Coming into force: 12th February 1994

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 88(8)[^f00001] and 89(2)(b) and (c) of the Road Traffic Act 1988[^f00002], and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Driving Licences (Designation of Relevant External Law) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 12th February 1994.

Designation of relevant external law

2

The law for the time being in force in the Isle of Man which corresponds to Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1988 is hereby designated as one which makes satisfactory provision for—

• (a) tests of competence to drive all classes of goods vehicle and all classes of passenger-carrying vehicle; and

• (b) the granting of licences to drive all classes of goods vehicle and all classes of passenger-carrying vehicle.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Robert Key — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Transport — 22nd January 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates Manx law as one which makes satisfactory provision for tests of competence to drive goods and passenger-carrying vehicles under section 89(2)(b) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and for the granting of licences to drive such vehicles under section 89(2)(c) of that Act.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: See the definition of “relevant external law”.

[^f00002]: 1988 c. 52; subsection (8) of section 88 was inserted by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22), section 3(1) and (5); subsections (1)(a) to (f) and (2) of section 89 were substituted by that Act, section 4(1) to (3).