Road Traffic (Driving Licences) Act 1983
Road Traffic (DrivingLicences) Act 1983
1983 CHAPTER 43
An Act to make provision about the granting, without tests of competence to drive, of driving licences to certain persons who are resident in Great Britain and are or have been authorised to drive under the law in force in places outside Great Britain, and for connected purposes.
[13th May 1983]
Be 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:—
1 Exchangeable licences to drive motor vehicles.
(1) Section 110 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 of that section and in that provision as so renumbered after the definition of ‘disqualified’ there shall be inserted the following definition—
‘'exchangeable licence' means a Community licence or a document which would be a Community licence if—
(a ) Gibraltar; and
(b ) each country or territory within this paragraph by virtue of an order under subsection (2) below,
were or formed part of a member State other than the United Kingdom;’.
(2) After that provision as so renumbered there shall be inserted the following subsections—
(2) If the Secretary of State is satisfied that satisfactory provision for the granting of licences to drive motor vehicles is made by the law of a country or territory which neither is nor forms part of a member State, he may by order made by statutory instrument designate that country or territory as a country or territory within paragraph (b ) of the definition of 'exchangeable licence' in subsection (1) above.
(3) Before making any order under subsection (2) above, the Secretary of State shall consult with such representative organisations as he thinks fit.’
(3) Part III of that Act shall be further amended as follows—
(a ) in sections 84(4) and 85 for the words ‘a Community licence’, wherever they occur, there shall be substituted the words ‘an exchangeable licence’;
(b ) in section 85(1) after the words ‘resident in’ there shall be inserted the words ‘Great Britain or (where the exchangeable licence is a Community licence)’;
(c ) in section 85(6) after the words ‘member State’ there shall be inserted the words ‘, country or territory’; and
(d ) in section 88(1) for the words ‘Community licence’ there shall be substituted the words ‘exchangeable licence’.
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