Industrial Training (Road Transport Board) Order 1966

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1966/1112
Year1966

1966 No. 1112

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

The Industrial Training (Road Transport Board) Order 1966

1stSeptember 1966

12thSeptember 1966

15thSeptember 1966

The Minister of Labour (hereinafter referred to as "the Minister") after consultation with organisations and associations of organisations appearing to be representative respectively of substantial numbers of employers engaging in the activities hereinafter mentioned and of substantial numbers of persons employed in those activities and with the bodies established for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership industries in which the said activities are carried on to a substantial extent and by virtue of the powers conferred on him by section 1 of, and paragraphs 1 and 7 of the Schedule to, the Industrial Training Act 1964(a) (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Industrial Training (Road Transport Board) Order 1966 and shall come into operation on 15th September 1966.

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(b) shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Establishment of Industrial Training Board

2. An industrial training board to be known as the Road Transport Industry Training Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Board") is hereby established to exercise in relation to the activities specified in Schedule 1 to this Order as the activities of the road transport industry the functions conferred on industrial training boards by the Act.

Membership and proceedings of the Board

3. The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Order shall have effect in relation to the Board.

R. J. Gunter, Minister of Labour.

1st September 1966.

(a) 1964 c. 16.

(b) 1889 c. 63.

SCHEDULE 1

THE ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY

1. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, the activities of the road transport industry are the following activities in so far as they are carried out in Great Britain:—

(a) the carriage of passengers by motor vehicles on roads for hire or reward;

(b) the carriage or haulage of goods by goods vehicles on roads for hire or reward;

(c) the letting out on hire (with or without the services of the drivers) of motor vehicles for the conveyance of persons or of goods vehicles for the carriage or haulage of goods;

(d) arranging by way of business the transport of goods by goods vehicles on roads;

(e) the repair of motor vehicles or goods vehicles;

(f) buying or selling motor vehicles or goods vehicles by way of business;

(g) the collection of motor vehicles or goods vehicles and their delivery by road by way of business;

(h) the removal of furniture by way of business;

(i) giving instruction by way of business in the driving of motor vehicles or goods vehicles;

(j) selling by retail, petrol, diesel oil, or lubricating or other oils for use in motor vehicles or goods vehicles;

(k) selling by wholesale, components, replacements, spare parts or accessories for motor vehicles or goods vehicles;

(l) the selling or letting out on hire of transport service equipment by way of business;

(m) public warehousing;

(n) any activities, being—

(i) related activities incidental or ancillary to principal activities of the road transport industry; or

(ii) activities undertaken in the administration, control or direction of one or more establishments, being establishments engaged wholly or mainly in principal activities of that industry, in related activities incidental or ancillary thereto, or in the administration, control or direction of one or more other establishments engaged in such principal or related activities;

and carried out, in either case, by the employer engaged in those principal activities or, where that employer is a company, by the company or by an associated company of the company;

(o) any activities of industry or commerce (other than road transport activities) carried out at or from an establishment mainly engaged—

(i) in road transport activities; or

(ii) in road transport activities and in activities described in the Appendix to this Schedule, but to a greater extent in road transport activities than in activities described in that Appendix in relation to any one industry.

2. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Schedule, there shall not be included in the activities of the road transport industry:—

(a) the activities (other than the repair of motor vehicles or goods vehicles by a local authority or the driving of goods vehicles operated by the British Railways Board for the carriage or haulage of goods for hire or reward) of any establishment engaged—

(i) mainly in activities not being road transport activities or activities described in the Appendix to this Schedule; or

(ii) to a less extent in road transport activities than in activities described in that Appendix in relation to any one industry;

(b) the activities of any establishment engaged wholly or mainly in—

(i) the carriage or haulage of goods by goods vehicles for an associated company of the company carrying on the establishment, being an associated company not engaged wholly or mainly in road transport activities;

(ii) the repair of vehicle bodies not being the carrying out of running repairs or of minor adjustments thereto; or

(iii) funeral undertaking;

(c) the activities of any establishment (not being that of a local authority) engaged wholly or mainly in cleaning, washing or garaging motor vehicles or goods vehicles or carrying out running repairs or minor adjustments thereto, being activities—

(i) incidental or ancillary to the activities of one or more establishments (in this sub-paragraph hereafter referred to as "the principal establishment") engaged wholly or mainly in any activities not being principal activities of the road transport industry; and

(ii) carried out by the employer carrying on the principal establishment or, where that employer is a company, by the company or by an associated company of the company;

(d) the activities of—

(i) a...

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