LegalizeThe Deregulation (Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles) Order 1998
Made: 8th August 1998
Coming into force in accordance with Article 1
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994, hereby makes the following Order:—
Citation and commencement
1
This Order may be cited as the Deregulation (Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles) Order 1998 and shall come into force 28 days after the day on which it is made.
Qualifications for drivers of private hire vehicles
2
In section 51 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (licensing of drivers of private hire vehicles), in subsection (1) as inserted by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 19963, in paragraph (b) after “section 99A(1)” there shall be inserted “or section 109(1)”4.
Qualifications for drivers of taxis
3
In section 59 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (qualifications for drivers of hackney carriages), in subsection (1A) as inserted by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 19965, in paragraph (b) after “section 99A(1)” there shall be inserted “or section 109(1)”.
Signed
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Glenda Jackson — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions — 8th August 1998
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 51 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 precludes the granting of a licence to drive a private hire vehicle in England (excluding London) or Wales except to an applicant who holds, and has held for at least a year, an appropriate driving licence. Such a licence is either a full licence granted under Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1988 or a licence issued by another state in the European Economic Area. This Order amends Section 51 so as to give equal recognition to a Northern Ireland driving licence. Section 59, which makes equivalent provision with regard to a licence to drive a taxi (a “hackney carriage”) is similarly amended.
Footnotes
S.I. 1996/1974 (hereinafter in these footnotes referred to as “the 1996 Regulations”). Section 51 was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the 1996 Regulations, by the substitution of a new subsection (1)(b) and the insertion of a new subsection (1) after subsection (1A). Subsection (1A) was inserted by section 47(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40).
Section 109(1) was amended by the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22), Schedule 3, paragraph 16.
Section 59 was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the 1996 Regulations, by the substitution of a new subsection (1)(b) and the insertion of a new subsection (1A) after subsection (1) and before subsection (1A). Subsection (1A) was inserted by section 47(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1991.
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