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The Road Safety Act 2006 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2012

S.I. 2012/1357 · Made 10 May 2012

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Road Traffic

Made 10th May 2012

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 61 of the Road Safety Act 2006f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2006 c. 49.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Provisions coming into force
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Road Safety Act 2006 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2012.

2Provisions coming into force

The following provisions of the Road Safety Act 2006 shall come into force on 21st May 2012—

(a)

section 42 (driving instruction) insofar as it relates to paragraphs 1 and 24 of Schedule 6 (amendments to the Road Traffic Act 1988);

(b)

paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 insofar as it relates to paragraph 24 of Schedule 6; and

(c)

paragraph 24 of Schedule 6.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Mike Penning

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

10th May 2012

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force, on 21st May 2012, paragraph 24 of Schedule 6 to the Road Safety Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”), Section 42 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to, the 2006 Act are also brought into force to the extent to which they relate to paragraph 24 of Schedule 6.

Paragraph 24 of Schedule 6 amends section 141 (regulations) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52) so as to widen the powers available to the Secretary of State when making regulations under Part 5 of that Act (including the power to make incidental and supplementary provision or different provision for different cases).