The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1995

• Citation: S.I. 1995/2075
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 15th August 1995.

Section 2

(1) Regulation 27 (Exemptions) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), for sub-paragraph (j) there shall be substituted–

(j) any vehicle which is not used on public roads or if it is so used during any calendar week–

(i) is used only in passing from land in the occupation of a person keeping the vehicle to other land in the occupation of that person, and

(ii) is not used on public roads for distances exceeding an aggregate of six miles in that calendar week;

(jj) any vehicle which–

(i) is used only for purposes relating to agriculture, horticulture or forestry,

(ii) is used on public roads only in passing between different areas of land occupied by the same person, and

(iii) in passing between any two such areas does not travel a distance exceeding 1.5 kilometres on public roads;

(3) In paragraph (1), in sub-paragraph (u)(ii), for the words “section 5 of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 ” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph 22 of Schedule 2 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 ”.

(4) In paragraph (6)–

(a) for the words “Schedule 3 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 1 to the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994”;

(b) for the definitions of “road construction vehicle” and “road construction machinery” there shall be substituted–

“public road”, “road construction vehicle” and “road construction machinery” have the same meanings respectively as in section 62(1) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.