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Statutory Instrument 2005 No. 27The Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) (Amendment) Regulations 2005(The document as of February, 2008. Arhiv.Online Library) STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS2005 No. 27ROAD TRAFFICThe Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) (Amendment) Regulations 2005
Whereas a draft of the following Regulations has been approved by both Houses of Parliament: Now, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 14(1) and (2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988[1], following consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations: Citation and commencement 1.These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st March 2005. Amendment of the 1993 Regulations 2. - (1) Regulation 6(1) of the Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) Regulations 1993[2] is amended as follows. (2) For sub-paragraph (b) there is substituted -
(3) In sub-paragraph (d), for "regulation 9 of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987" there is substituted "regulation 17 of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999[3]". (This note is not part of the Regulations) The Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) Regulations 1993 require persons driving or riding in a motor vehicle to wear a seatbelt. This requirement is subject to a number of exemptions, including exemptions for the users of motor vehicles engaged in making local rounds of deliveries or collections of goods or mail and for "qualified drivers" supervising learner drivers during reversing manoeuvres. These Regulations amend those Regulations by:
(b) replacing the reference to regulation 9 of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987 with a reference to regulation 17 the Regulations of 1999 (S.I. 1999/2864) which has superseded it and defines "qualified driver" differently. They also make a further textual amendment consequent upon the revocation of the 1987 Regulations. Notes: [1] 1988 c. 52. Section 14(2)(b)(i) of the 1988 Act was substituted by section 110 of the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c. 20). Section 192(1) of the 1988 Act contains the definition of "prescribed".back [2] S.I. 1993/176.back [3] S.I.1999/2864.back ISBN 0 11 051570 6 -- Back--
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