Article 2 Visiors' driving permits

In Article 2 (visitors' driving permits) of the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1975^f1—

(a)

in paragraph (1) afetr the words “a motor vehicle of any class” there shall be inserted the words “other than a large goods vehicle or a passenger-carrying vehicle”;

(b)

in paragraph (2) for the words “public service vehicle or heavy goods vehicle”, in each place where they occur, there shall be submitted the words “large goods vehicle or passenger-carrying vehicle” and for the words “either of such a licence as is required by section 22 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981^f2, or of such a licence as is required by section 110 of the said Act of 1988^f3” there shall be substituted the words “of a large goods vehicle driver’s licence or a passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence”;

(c)

in paragraph (3)(a) and (b) for the words “public service vehicle”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “passenger-carrying vehicle” and for the words “such a licence as is required by section 22 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981” there shall be substituted the words “a passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence”; and

(d)

in paragraph (7) after the definition of “public service vehicle” there shall be inserted the following definition:—

“and “large goods vehicle”, “passenger-carrying vehicle”, “large goods vehicle driver’s licence” and “passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence” have the same meaning as in Part IV of the Road Traffic Act 1988”.

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Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1975/1208; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1989/993.
f2: 1981 c. 14; section 22 was repealed by section 16 of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22) coming into force on 1st April 1991 (S.I. 1990/2610).
f3: On that date section 110 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52) was repealed by the said section 16, and Part IV was replaced by a new Part IV substituted by section 2 of the said Act of 1989.