Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made: 20th March 2003

Coming into operation in accordance with Regulation 1

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 5(3) and (5), 19C(1) and 218(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[^f00001] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation –

• (a) for the purposes of regulation 2(3) on 21st April 2003;

• (b) for all other purposes, on 1st July 2003.

Amendment of the Motor Vehicle (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

2

• (1) Schedule 6 to the Motor Vehicle (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996[^f00002] shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (3).

• (2) For Parts 1 and 2 there shall be substituted the provisions set out in Part 1 of the Schedule;

• (3) For Parts 3 and 4 there shall be substituted the provisions set out in Part 2 of the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

PART 1

PART 3

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 20th March 2003.

Stanley Duncan — A senior officer of the — Department of the Environment

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (the principal Regulations”) by extending the syllabi for theory tests prescribed for Categories A, B, C and D. These Regulations implement in part Article 1(2) and Annex II of Commission Directive 2000/56/EC of 14th September 2000 amending Council Directive 91/439/EEC on driving licences.

Copies of the EC Directives referred to in this note can be obtained from TSO, 16 Arthur Street, Belfast BT1 4GD.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department”; Article 5 was substituted by S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3) Schedule 1; Article 5 was amended by S.R. 1996 No. 426, Schedule 1, paragraph 2;

[^f00002]: S.R. 1996 No. 542; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1999 No. 358

[^f00003]: O.J. No. L370, 31.12.85, p. 1

[^f00004]: O.J. No. L370, 31.12.85, p. 8