{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tests-amendment-regulations-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tests-amendment-regulations-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/81",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-tests-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC\nMade 20th January 1997\nLaid before Parliament 28th January 1997\nComing into force 3rd March 1997\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45 and 46 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 52; sections 45 and 46 were amended by paragraphs 52 and 53 of Schedule 4 to the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/643, which was made under section 102 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51). The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1995/1684 and S.I. 1996/1961 and the relevant entry in Table III is item 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/81/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:39.769822+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."
}