{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/driving-licences-exchangeable-licences-order-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/driving-licences-exchangeable-licences-order-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1641",
  "legislation_title": "The Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/driving-licences-exchangeable-licences-order-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC\nMade 9th June 1999\nComing into force 2nd July 1999\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, being satisfied that satisfactory provision is made by the laws of the country and the territories specified in this Order as respects the grant of driving licences of the descriptions specified herein and having consulted representative organisations in accordance with section 108(3) of the Road Traffic Act 1988, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 108(2) to (2B) of that Act hereby makes the following Order:-",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 52. The relevant amendments to subsection (1) of section 108 are by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974), Schedule 1, and the Deregulation (Exchangeable Driving Licences) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1917, “the 1998 Order”); subsection (2) was substituted and subsections (2A) and (2B) were inserted by the 1998 Order. In subsection (1) see the definitions of “EEA State”, “EEA Agreement” and “exchangeable licence”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1641/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:36:53.777986+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}