Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989

Part I Driving Licences

1 Abolition of special licences for driving HGVs and PSVs.

2 Special provisions relating to licensing of drivers of LGVs and PCVs.

3 Exceptions to prohibition on driving without a licence.

4 Tests of competence and related conditions of entitlement to driving licence.

5 Refusal or revocation of licences on grounds of physical unfitness.

6 Compulsory training courses for riders of motor cycles.

7 Minor, consequential and further amendments.

Part II Driver Information Systems

8 Definitions of driver information systems etc.

Licensing for driver information systems

9 Requirement for licence to operate driver information system.

10 Operators’ licences.

11 Sanctions for operating outside licence area or for breach of licence conditions.

12 Power to install apparatus etc.

13 Application of other Acts and protective provisions in relation to licence holders.

14 Offences by officers of bodies corporate.

15 Regulations and orders.

Part III General

17 Citation, commencement and extent.

SCHEDULE 1 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

Part I Existing HGV and PSV Drivers’ Licences

1 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

Functions of Secretary of State and Traffic Commissioners

2 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

Conditions of existing Heavy Goods VehicleHGV licences

3 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

Duration of existing licences

4 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

Revocation or suspension of existing licences

5 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

Disqualification on revocation of existing licences

6 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

Appeals relating to existing licences

7 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

8 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

Provisions as to existing Northern Ireland licences

9 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

Part II Transitory Provisions

10 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

11 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

12 EXISTING HGV AND PSV DRIVERS’ LICENCES

SCHEDULE 2 Provisions inserted in Road Traffic Act 1988

PART IV Licensing of drivers of large goods vehicles and...

SCHEDULE 3 Driving Licences: Minor, Consequential, and Further Amendments

Energy Act 1976 (c.76)

1. . . . . . . . . ....

Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 (c.14)

2In section 24 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981...

3In section 46(1) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981...

Transport Act 1985 (c.67)

4In section 18 of the Transport Act 1985 (exemption from...

5In section 23(2) of the Transport Act 1985 (conditions of...

Road Traffic Act 1988 (c.52)

6In section 23 of the 1988 Act (restriction on carriage...

7In section 87 of the 1988 Act (drivers obliged to...

8In section 89 of the 1988 Act (tests of competence...

9In section 97(1) of the 1988 Act (licences to be...

10In section 97(3) of the 1988 Act (provisional licences), in...

11In section 98 of the 1988 Act (form of licence...

12In section 99 of the 1988 Act (duration of licences)—...

13In section 103 of the 1988 Act (obtaining licence, or...

14In section 105 of the 1988 Act (regulations), in subsection...

15In section 108(1) of the 1988 Act (interpretation)—

16In section 109 of the 1988 Act (driving in Great...

17In section 121(2) of the 1988 Act (heavy goods vehicle...

18In section 164 of the 1988 Act (production to constables...

19In section 165(4) of the 1988 Act (defence in case...

20For section 166 of the 1988 Act (powers of certain...

21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

22In section 173(2) of the 1988 Act (forgery of documents,...

23For section 183(6) of the 1988 Act (discharge of Part...

24In section 192(3) of the 1988 Act (interpretation of references...

Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c.53)

25In section 45 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988...

26In section 98(3) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988...

27In Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988—...

28In Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988,...

29In Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988,...

30In Schedule 5 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988—...

SCHEDULE 4 Driver Information System Licences: Application of Acts to Licence Holders

1Sections 271 to 274 of the Town and Country Planning...

2Section 224 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act...

3(1) The Highways Act 1980 shall be amended as provided...

4Part 10 of Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003...

5(1) The Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 shall be amended as...

SCHEDULE 5 Driver Information Systems: Undertakers’ Works

1The following provisions of this Schedule apply where a relevant...

Notice of proposed works

2(1) The relevant undertaker shall, not less than 10 days...

Counter-notices

3Where a notice has been given under paragraph 2 above...

4Where a counter-notice given under paragraph 3 above states that...

5Where a counter-notice given under paragraph 3 above states that...

Execution of works

6Where— (a) no counter-notice is given under paragraph 3 above,...

7(1) If the relevant undertaker or any of his agents—...

8In this Schedule— “relevant undertaker” means— (a) any person or...

SCHEDULE 6 Repeals

Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989

1989 c. 22

An Act to amend the law relating to driving licences and to regulate the operation of systems providing drivers of motor vehicles with guidance and information derived from automatically processed data or collecting, storing and processing the data.

[21st July 1989]

C1Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

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Act amended (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/593, reg. 2, Sch. 1