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Licensing of operators of goods vehicles |
| Increase of fine for breach of obligation to hold operator's licence. |
4. - (1) In section 2 of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 (obligation to hold operator's licence), in subsection (5) (penalty for offence of using a vehicle in contravention of that section) for "level 4" there is substituted "level 5".
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(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any offence committed before this section comes into force.
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| Detention of vehicle used without operator's licence. |
5. - (1) After section 2 of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995, there is inserted-
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| "Detention of vehicle used without operator's licence. |
2A. Schedule 1A (which relates to the detention, removal and disposal of goods vehicles in respect of which it appears that section 2 is contravened) shall have effect."
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(2) After Schedule 1 to that Act there is inserted, as Schedule 1A, the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Act.
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| Addition of specified vehicles to operator's licence. |
6. In section 5 of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 (vehicles authorised to be used under operator's licence), for subsection (6) there is substituted-
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"(6) A motor vehicle which is not specified in an operator's licence is not authorised to be used under that licence by virtue of subsection (1) unless the licence-holder-
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(a) has given to the traffic commissioner by whom the licence was issued a notice in such form and containing such information about the vehicle as the commissioner may require, and |
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(b) has paid to him a prescribed fee." |
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Supplemental |
| Short title, commencement and extent. |
7. - (1) This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Enforcement Powers) Act 1999.
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(2) The following provisions shall come into force on the day on which this Act is passed-
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(b) so much of any other provision of this Act as confers any power to make regulations. |
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(3) Except as provided by subsection (2), the provisions of this Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be appointed for different purposes.
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(4) This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
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