Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

Visiors' driving permits

2. In Article 2 (visitors' driving permits) of the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1975(2)-

(a)in paragraph (1) afetr the words "a motor vehicle of any class" there shall be inserted the words "other than a large goods vehicle or a passenger-carrying vehicle";

(b)in paragraph (2) for the words "public service vehicle or heavy goods vehicle", in each place where they occur, there shall be submitted the words "large goods vehicle or passenger-carrying vehicle" and for the words "either of such a licence as is required by section 22 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(3), or of such a licence as is required by section 110 of the said Act of 1988(4)" there shall be substituted the words "of a large goods vehicle driver's licence or a passenger-carrying vehicle driver's licence";

(c)in paragraph (3)(a) and (b) for the words "public service vehicle", in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words "passenger-carrying vehicle" and for the words "such a licence as is required by section 22 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981" there shall be substituted the words "a passenger-carrying vehicle driver's licence"; and

(d)in paragraph (7) after the definition of "public service vehicle" there shall be inserted the following definition:-

"and "large goods vehicle", "passenger-carrying vehicle", "large goods vehicle driver's licence" and "passenger-carrying vehicle driver's licence" have the same meaning as in Part IV of the Road Traffic Act 1988".

3. In Article 3, paragraph (1), of that Order after the words "a motor vehicle of any class" there shall be inserted the words "other than a large goods vehicle or a passenger-carrying vehicle".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1975 to take account of the bringing into force on 1st April 1991 of sections 1(1) and 2(1) of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 by the Road traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (Commencment No.4) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/2610). Those sections abolish the requirement for special licences for drivers of lorries and buses as heavy goods vehicles under Part IV of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52) and as an addition to the requirement for ordinary driving licences under Part III of the 1988 Act. They replace this by a unified system of licensing of such vehicles under Part III of the 1988 Act ass large goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles supplemented by a new Part IV of the 1988 Act set out in Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act.