{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/669",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Regulation 47 (Traffic Act Part IV: prescribed classes of goods and passenger-carrying vehicle) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (2) there shall be substituted—\n“(2) Part IV of the Traffic Act and regulations 51 to 54 shall not apply to a passenger-carrying vehicle manufactured more than 30 years before the date when it is driven and not used for hire or reward or for the carriage of more than 8 passengers.\n(2A) Part IV of the Traffic Act and regulations 51 to 54 shall not apply to a passenger-carrying vehicle when it is being driven by a constable for the purpose of removing or avoiding obstruction to other road users or other members of the public, for the purpose of protecting life or property (including the passenger-carrying vehicle and its passengers) or for other similar purposes.”.\n(3) In paragraph (3), after “117(7)”, there shall be inserted “and 117A(6)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/669/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:37.785001+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."
}