Statutory Rule 1996 No. 426

The Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

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1996 No. 426

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

The Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

The Department of the Environment, being a Department designated^[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^[2] in relation to the licensing of drivers of motor vehicles, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
    1.—(1)  These Regulations may be cited as the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation as follows—


(a)  as to—


(i)  paragraphs 2(5), 2(6), 2(8), 3(2) and 11 of Schedule 1, and


(ii)  so much of regulations 3 and 4 and the remainder of Schedules 1 and 2 as is necessary to confer on the Department extended or modified powers to make such orders or regulations as are necessary for the purpose of complying with Council Directive 91/439/EEC^[3] and for ancillary purposes,
on 18th October 1996;


(b)  except as provided in sub-paragraph (a) on 1st January 1997.

Interpretation
    2.    The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954^[4] shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Amendments to the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981
    3.    The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981^[5] shall have effect with the amendments set out in Schedule 1.

Amendments to other enactments
    4.    The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 shall have effect with the amendments set out in that Schedule (being minor amendments consequential upon those set out in Schedule 1).

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on
13th September 1996.

L.S.
Trevor Pearson

Assistant Secretary

[1] S.I. 1981/1536 back

[2] 1972 c. 68; by virtue of section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51) section 1(2) of this Act is amended to enable regulations to be made under section 2(2) to implement obligations of the United Kingdom arising under the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 (Cm 2073) and the Protocol adjusting the Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th March 1994 (Cm 2183) back

[3] O.J. No. L237, 24.8.91, p. 1 back

[4] 1954 c. 33 (N.I.) back

[5] S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1) back

Explanatory Note