Statutory Instruments
ROAD TRAFFIC
Made
11th December 1998
Laid before Parliament
11th December 1998
Coming into force
1st January 1999
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 49 and 51 of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1) 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:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999.
2. The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1988(2) shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
3. In regulation 20(1)(g) after the words "the Construction and Use Regulations" there shall be inserted "or of the Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) Regulations 1998(3)".
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Larry Whitty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
11th December 1998
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make a consequential amendment to the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1998 to take account of the Road Vehicles (Authorised Weight) Regulations 1998, which contain new provisions as to the weight of heavy goods vehicles.
1988 c. 52; section 49 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), Schedule 4, paragraph 52.
S.I. 1998/3111.