{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/977",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 108 (interpretation) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) for the definitions of “EEA Agreement” and “EEA State” substitute—\n““EEA agreement” and “EEA state” have the meaning given by Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978;”;\n(b) after the definition of “licence” insert—\n““light quadricycle” means a quadricycle referred to in Article 1(3)(a) of the motorcycle type approval Directive (within the meaning of Part 2 of this Act),”;\n(c) for the definition of “moped” substitute—\n““moped” does not include light quadricycles, but otherwise has the same meaning as in Directive 2006/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20th December 2006 on driving licences,”; and\n(d) in the definition of “motor bicycle”, in paragraph (b), for “and” substitute “or”.\n(3) After subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) In this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to the expiry of a licence is a reference to the time when it ceases to be in force (and “expired” is to be interpreted accordingly).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "In section 108(1), the definitions of “EEA State” and EEA Agreement” were inserted by S.I. 1996/1974, Schedule 1, paragraph 19(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition “EEA State” was inserted into Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c.30) by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 26(1)."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}