Motor Car (International Circulation) Act 1909

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Motor Car (International Circulation) Act, 1909.

(9 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 37.

An Act to enable Orders in Council to be made for the purpose of giving effect to any Convention for facilitating the International Circulation of Motor Cars.

[25th November 1909]

B E it enacted by the King'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:

S-1 Power to make Order in Council for carrying out conventions as to international circulation of motor cars.

1 Power to make Order in Council for carrying out conventions as to international circulation of motor cars.

(1) His Majesty may, by Order in Council for the purpose of giving effect to any convention for facilitating the international circulation of motor cars, provide—

(a ) for the grant and authentication of any travelling passes, certificates, or authorities which may be of use to persons resident in the United Kingdom when temporarily taking their motor cars abroad, or to drivers when proceeding abroad for the purpose of driving motor cars; and

(b ) for modifying the provisions of the Motor Car Act, 1903, relating to the registration of motor cars and the licensing of motor-car drivers in the case of motor cars brought temporarily into the United Kingdom by persons resident abroad, and intending to make only a temporary stay in the United Kingdom, and of drivers entering the United Kingdom for the purpose of driving any such cars.

(2) Any modifications of the Motor Car Act, 1903, made by an Order in Council under this section shall have effect as if they were contained in that Act.

(3) Any Order in Council under this Act may be varied or revoked by any subsequent Order in Council under this Act.

S-2 Short title.

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2. This Act may be cited as theMotor Car (International Circulation) Act, 1909.

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