Statutory Instruments
2015 No. 502
Road Traffic
The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) (Downloading of Data) Regulations 2015
Made
3rd March 2015
Coming into force
6th April 2015
The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 95(1) of the Transport Act 1968( 1 ).
In accordance with section 95(1) of the Transport Act 1968, the Secretary of State considers it expedient to make these Regulations in order to amend section 97D of the Transport Act 1968( 2 ) to take account of Commission Regulation (EU) No 581/2010 on the maximum periods for the downloading of relevant data from vehicle units and from driver cards( 3 ).
Representative organisations have been consulted in accordance with section 101(6) of the Transport Act 1968.
A draft of these Regulations was laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament in accordance with section 101(3A) of the Transport Act 1968( 4 ).
Citation and Commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) (Downloading of Data) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 6th April 2015.
Amendment of the Transport Act 1968
2. —(1) The Transport Act 1968 is amended as follows.
(2) In the table set out in section 97D(3), for the words “56 days”, in each place they occur, substitute “90 days”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Claire Perry
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
3rd March 2015
1968 c. 73 . Section 95(1) was amended by the Road Traffic (Drivers’ Ages and Hours of Work) Act 1976 (c.3) , section 2(1)(d), and by S.I. 2011/1043 , article 6(2)(c).
Section 97D was inserted by regulation 2 of the Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) (Downloading and Retention of Data) Regulations 2008 ( S.I. 2008/198 ).
OJ No L 168, 2.7.2010, p16.
Subsection (3A) was inserted by the Road Traffic (Drivers’ Ages and Hours of Work) Act 1976, section 2(1)(i).