Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

• (ii) the introduction of stricter eyesight standards for drivers of Group 2 vehicles.

Transitional provision is made for holders of licences with driving entitlements currently in force and for correspondences between the current vehicle categories and the new ones (see, in particular, regulations 4, 41 and 53).

Fees for driving tests and the grant of driving licences are not changed (regulations 10, 22 and 24 and Schedules 2 and 4).

The Regulations come into force for the purposes of booking tests on 2nd December 1996, for the purposes of photographic identification at tests on 1st March 1997 and for all other purposes on 1st January 1997.

Copies of the EEC Directives referred to in these Regulations and in this note can be obtained from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 16 Arthur Street, Belfast BT1 4GD.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department” and “prescribed”; Articles 4-19D were substituted by Schedule 1 to S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3); Articles 70-79 were substituted by S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3) Schedule 3; Articles 9(2), 13(1) and (4), 19D(1) and 73(3) were amended by S.R. 1996 No. 426 Schedule 1 paragraphs 3, 5, 12 and 15 respectively; Articles 15A and 73A were inserted by S.R. 1996 No. 426 Schedule 1 paragraphs 8 and 16 respectively; Article 72(1) was substituted in part by S.R. 1996 No. 426 Schedule 1 paragraph 14

[^f00002]: Formerly the Department of Finance; see S.I. 1992/338 (N.I. 6) Article 3

[^f00003]: S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18)

[^f00004]: Article 78 was substituted by S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3) Schedule 3

[^f00005]: Article 13(5) and (5A) where substituted by S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18) Article 92 (prosp.)

[^f00006]: 1967 c. 37 (N.I.)

[^f00007]: S.R. 1989 No. 299 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations

[^f00008]: Article 13(3)(d) was inserted by S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18) Article 92 (prosp.)

[^f00009]: 1920 c. 72

[^f00010]: 1949 c. 89

[^f00011]: 1954 c. 17 (N.I.)

[^f00012]: 1962 c. 13

[^f00013]: 1971 c. 10; this Act was extended to Northern Ireland by section 10 of the Finance Act 1991 c. 31

[^f00014]: 1972 c. 10 (N.I.)

[^f00015]: 1994 c. 22

[^f00016]: S.I. 1965/1536

[^f00017]: Article 17(1) was substituted by S.R. 1996 No. 426 Schedule 1 paragraph 10

[^f00018]: S.I. 1993/3160 (N.I. 15)

[^f00019]: 1992 c. 7 (N.I.)

[^f00020]: 1967 c. 37 (N.I.); section 10B was inserted by S.I. 1990/994 (N.I. 7) Article 3

[^f00021]: Article 5(1A) was inserted by S.R. 1996 No. 426 Schedule 1 paragraph 2

[^f00022]: O.J. No. L357, 29.12.76, p. 36

[^f00023]: S.R. 1990 No. 190 as amended by S.R. 1991 No. 477

[^f00024]: Article 5(1A) was inserted by S.R. 1996 No. 426 Schedule 1 paragraph 2

[^f00025]: S.I. 1965/1536

[^f00026]: S.R. & O. 1939 No. 1304

[^f00027]: 1959 c. 19

[^f00028]: 1964 c. 38

[^f00029]: S.R. 1989 No. 299 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations

[^f00030]: S.I. 1976/581 (N.I. 11); see paragraph 3(1) and (2) of Schedule 6 to the Order

[^f00031]: S.R. 1981 No. 240

[^f00032]: S.R. 1991 No. 99

[^f00033]: Article 72(1) as substituted by S.R. 1996 No. 426 Schedule 1 paragraph 14

[^f00034]: S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3)

[^f00035]: Article 180 was amended by S.R. 1996 No. 426 Schedule 1 paragraph 23

[^f00036]: Article 174 was amended by S.R. 1996 No. 426 Schedule 1 paragraph 22

[^f00037]: S.R. 1990 No. 190 as amended by S.R. 1996 No. 426 Schedule 2 paragraph 2

[^f00038]: 1994 c. 22; section 20A was inserted by Part V of Schedule 29 to the Finance Act 1995 c. 4

[^f00039]: 1972 c. 20

[^f00040]: 1988 c. 52