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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/2075",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic Act 1974 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1974-commencement-no-1-order-1974",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE ACT COMING INTO OPERATION ON 1ST JANUARY 1975",
  "text": "(1)\n(2)\nProvisions of the Act\nSubject matter of provisions\nSection 6.\nTraffic surveys.\nSections 9(1) and (2).\nExtension of Construction and Use Regulations to lights.\nSection 10(1) to (6) and (7) (so far as that subsection relates to the provisions of Schedule 2 to the Act which are specified below in this Schedule).\nExtension of type approval scheme to all vehicles and to vehicle parts.\nSection 11.\nExtension of prohibition of dealing in unroadworthy vehicles.\nSection 12.\nFitting and sale of defective or unsuitable vehicle parts.\nSection 13(1) (so far as that subsection relates to the provisions of Schedule 3 to the Act which are specified below in this Schedule).\nAmendments relating to licensing of drivers of vehicles.\nSection 14.\nWeighing of motor vehicles.\nSection 15.\nReduction of minimum age for driving heavy goods vehicles.\nSection 16.\nAmendments relating to operators' licences.\nSection 17.\nExperimental introduction of road humps for controlling vehicle speeds.\nSection 18.\nUse of pyrotechnic flares by police for traffic purposes.\nSection 19.\nPower of police or local authority to retain custody of removed vehicles until charges are paid.\nSection 21.\nVariation of penalties for certain offences.\nSection 22.\nJurisdiction of courts of summary jurisdiction in Scotland for certain offences.\nSection 23.\nInterpretation.\nSection 24(1), (2) (so far as that subsection relates to the provisions of Schedule 6 to the Act which are specified below in this Schedule), (3) (so far as that sub-section relates to the provisions of Schedule 7 to the Act which are specified below in this Schedule), (4) and (5).\nShort Title, amendments, repeals, commencement and extent.\nIn Schedule 2—\nAmendments to Part III of Road Traffic Act 1960.\nIn Part I—paragraphs 1(1), (2), (4) and (5), and 4.\nAmendments to Road Traffic Act 1972.\nIn Part II—all the paragraphs.\nIn Schedule 3—paragraphs 2(4), 4(1), (3) and (4), 5(2) and 8.\nAmendments to Part III of Road Traffic Act 1972.\nIn Schedule 4—all the paragraphs.\nAmendment to Part V of the Transport Act 1968.\nSchedule 5—all parts.\nVariation of penalties of certain offences.\nIn Schedule 6—\nparagraph 2.\nAmendment to section 144 of the Road Traffic Act 1960.\nparagraphs 4 to 9.\nAmendments to Road Traffic Regulations Act 1967.\nparagraphs 10 and 11.\nAmendments to the Criminal Appeal Act 1968.\nparagraphs 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 24.\nAmendments to Road Traffic Act 1972.\nIn Schedule 7—\nthe entries relating to—\nthe Road Traffic Act 1960, section 133(4).\nthe Road Traffic Act 1962 Schedules 1 and 4,\nthe Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967, sections 9(10), 31(3), 42(4), and section 85(1), the Criminal Justice Act 1967 Schedule 3, the Road Traffic Act 1972, sections 47, 48(3) , 50, 51, 53(2), 62(2)(c), 64, 88(5) (but not so as to affect the validity of any regulations made, or having effect as if made, under that subsection), 162(1)(iii), and 188, the Road Traffic (Foreign Vehicles) Act 1972, sections 5 and 7(7).\nRepeals.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 59."
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