{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1378",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC\nMade 31st July 1987\nLaid before Parliament 13th August 1987\nComing into force 3rd September 1987\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 96, 107 and 108 of the Road Traffic Act 1972, and now vested in him, and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 199(2) of that Act, and in the case of regulations 7 and 19 with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 20; section 84 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1974 (c. 50) (“the 1974 Act”), section 13 and Schedule 3, paragraph 1 and by the Road Traffic (Drivers' Ages and Hours of Work) Act 1976 (c. 3) (“the 1976 Act”), section 1 and Schedule 1, paragraph 1; section 85 was amended by the 1976 Act, section 1 and Schedule 1, paragraph 2 and by the Transport Act 1981 (c. 56) (“the 1981 Act”), section 23; section 87 was amended by the 1974 Act, section 13 and Schedule 3, paragraph 2; section 88 was amended by the 1974 Act, section 13 and Schedule 3, paragraph 4, by the 1976 Act, section 1 and Schedule 1, paragraph 3 and by the 1981 Act, section 23; section 89 was amended by the 1974 Act, section 13 and Schedule 3, paragraph 5 and by the 1981 Act, section 23; section 96 was substituted by the 1976 Act, section 1 and extended by the Transport Act 1980 (c. 34), section 37; and section 107 was amended by the 1976 Act, section 1 and Schedule 1, paragraph 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/571 and 1981/238."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1378/introduction",
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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."
}