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Statutory Instruments
ROAD TRAFFIC
Made
16th December 1987
Laid before Parliament
23rd December 1987
Coming into force
13th January 1988
The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the power conferred by section 60(2) of the Transport Act 1968(1), now vested in him(2), and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 91(8) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Goods Vehicles (Operators' Licences, Qualifications and Fees) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 13th January 1988.
2. The Goods Vehicles (Operators' Licences, Qualifications and Fees) Regulations 1984(3) are hereby further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
3. In regulation 3 (interpretation), in paragraph (1) after the definition of "public service vehicle" there shall be inserted the following new definition-
""recovery vehicle" has the same meaning as in Part I of Schedule 3 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971(4);".
4. In Schedule 5 (cases in which a licence is not required), at the end there shall be added the following new paragraph-
"28. A recovery vehicle.".
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Peter Bottomley
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
16th December 1987
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Goods Vehicles (Operators' Licences, Qualifications and Fees) Regulations 1984, to exempt from operator licensing vehicles which are licensed and taxed in the recovery vehicle class, established with effect from 1st January 1988 under the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 as amended by the Finance Act 1987. Regulation 4 adds a paragraph covering these vehicles to the list of exemptions in Schedule 5 to the Regulations, and regulation 3 provides the necessary definition of the expression "recovery vehicle".
1971 c. 10; the definition of "recovery vehicle" is set out in paragraph 8 of Part I of Schedule 3, which was added by the Finance Act 1987 (c. 16), Schedule 1, Part II, paragraph 2.
