Regulation 4 Duty to review

(1)

The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a)

carry out a review of regulations 2 and 3;

(b)

set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and

(c)

publish the report.

(2)

In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how Commission Directive 2009/112/EC and Commission Directive 2009/113/EC^f1 (which are implemented by means of regulations 2 and 3) are implemented in other member States.

(3)

The report must in particular—

(a)

set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by those regulations,

(b)

assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and

(c)

assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4)

The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.

(5)

Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Commission Directive 2009/112/EC of 25 August 2009 amending Council Directive 91/439/EEC on driving licenses, O.J. No. L 223, 26.8.09, p.26; and Commission Directive 2009/113/EC of 25 August 2009 amending Directive 2006/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on driving licences, O.J. No. L 223, 26.8.09, p. 31.