Jersey R & O 6222

Road Traffic (Jersey) Law, 1956.

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ROAD TRAFFIC (No. 10) (JERSEY) REGULATIONS, 1975.

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(Promulgated on the 26th day of November, 1975).

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STATES OF JERSEY.

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The 18th day of November, 1975.

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THE STATES, in pursuance of the powers conferred on them by the Order in Council of the twenty-sixth day of December, 1851,1 and by Article 49 of the Road Traffic (Jersey) Law, 1956, as amended,2 have made the following Regulations:  -

1.             In paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the Road Traffic (Jersey) Law, 1956, as amended,3 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Law”) –

(a)     in the definition of “heavy motor car” for the words “two tons and a half” there shall be substituted the words “three tons”;

(b)     in the definition of “heavy motor cycle” after the words “light motor cycle “there shall be inserted a comma and the word “moped”;

(c)     in the definition of “light motor cycle” –

(i)      after the words “not being” there shall be inserted the words “a moped or”;

(ii)     after the words “two hundred” there shall be inserted the words “and fifty”;

(d)     after that definition there shall be inserted the following definition –

“ ‘moped’ means a motor cycle, the cylinder capacity of the engine of which does not exceed fifty cubic centimetres and which is equipped with pedals by means of which it is capable of being propelled;”;

(e)     in the definition of “motor car” –

(i)      for the words “heavy motor cycle, light motor cycle” there shall be substituted the words “motor cycle, moped”;

(ii)     for the words “two tons and a half” there shall be substituted the words “three tons”.

2.             After Article 3 of the principal Law4 there shall be inserted the following Article –

“ARTICLE 3A

RECORDS OF LICENCES AND ENDORSEMENTS

(1)          Every licensing authority shall establish and keep a record of all licences granted and renewed by him and a record of all endorsements from time to time duly made on such licences.

(2)          Every licensing authority shall send to the Chief Officer of the States of Jersey Police Force a copy of each completed form of application for the grant or renewal of a licence and the Chief Officer shall also keep a record of any endorsements made as aforesaid.”

3.             For paragraph (1) of Article 13 of the principal Law5 there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

“(1)        A person shall not drive, and shall, for the purposes of this Law be deemed to be disqualified for holding or obtaining a licence to drive, on a road a motor vehicle specified in the first column of the following Table if he is under the age specified in relation thereto in the second column of that Table –

4.             Notwithstanding Regulations 1 and 3 of these Regulations, a person shall not be prohibited from driving a motor vehicle of any class or description if at any time before the coming into force of these Regulations he has held, or was entitled (on making the requisite application and declaration and on payment of the appropriate fee) to the grant of, a licence, other than a provisional licence, authorising him to drive that class or description of motor vehicle.

5.             These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (No. 10) (Jersey) Regulations, 1975 and shall come into force on the first day of January, 1976.

E.J.M. POTTER,

Greffier of the States.