Statutory Rule 1997 No. 241

      The Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997


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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

1997 No. 241

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

The Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made 16th May 1997
Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)


    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) 1997.

        (2)  Regulations 1, 2 and 4, and Schedule 2, shall come into operation on 30th June 1997.

        (3)  Regulation 3 and Schedule 1 shall come into operation on 1st September 1997.
    Interpretation
        2.    The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[3] shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
    Amendments to the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996
        3.    The Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996[4] shall have effect with the amendments set out in Schedule 1.
    Minor amendments
        4.    The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[5] and the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995[6] shall have effect with the minor amendments set out in Schedule 2.


Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on


J. Ritchie

Assistant Secretary

16th May 1997.





Notes:

[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 1993 (Cm 2183) back

[3] 1954 c. 33 (N.I.) back

[4] S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10) back

[5] S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1) back

[6] 1995/2994 (N.I. 18) back

 

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