Road Traffic (Disabled Persons) (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2002

Jersey R&O 102/2002

 

Road Traffic (Jersey) Law 1956

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ROAD TRAFFIC (DISABLED PERSONS) (BADGES FOR MOTOR VEHICLES) (AMENDMENT) (JERSEY) ORDER 2002

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                THE PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE, in pursuance of Articles 32C and 42 of the Road Traffic (Jersey) Law 1956, as amended,[1] orders as follows -

 

                1.      In this Order “principal Order” means the Road Traffic (Disabled Persons) (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Jersey) Order 1982.[2]

 

                2.      For Article 3 of the principal Order there shall be substituted the following Articles -

 

Description of disabled persons

 

          3.      A person may apply for a disabled person’s badge if he -

 

          (a)     has a permanent and substantial disability which causes inability to walk or very considerable difficulty in walking; or

 

          (b)     is registered with the Jersey Blind Society Incorporated or has a certificate from that Society to the effect that he is blind.

 

Fees

 

          3A.   An application for a disabled person’s badge (including a duplicate badge) shall be accompanied by a fee of £15.”.

 

                3.      After Article 5(a) of the principal Order there shall be inserted the following paragraph -

 

          “(aa) an application for a badge (including a duplicate badge) is not accompanied by the fee set out in Article 3A of this Order; or”

 

                4.      For the Schedule to the principal Order there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.

 

                5.      This Order shall not apply to any application for the issue of a disabled person’s badge (including a duplicate badge) made before the commencement of this Order and the principal Order shall have effect in relation to any badge issued in respect of any such application as if this Order had not been made.

 

                6.      This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Disabled Persons) (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st November 2002.

 

                By Order of the Public Services Committee,

 

                                                                                            C.M. NEWCOMBE

 

Greffier of the States.

 

30th September 2002.


SCHEDULE

 

(Article 4)

 

“SCHEDULE

 

(Article 2)

 

PART 1

 

Form of disabled person’s badge

 

Front

 

Form of disabled person

 


Back

 

Form of disabled person
PART 2

 

Specification

 

                1.       A disabled person’s badge shall be -

 

                (a)     106 millimetres in height; and

 

                (b)     148 millimetres in width.

 

                2.       The background on both sides of a disabled person’s badge shall be coloured light blue and shall include a background of small wheelchair symbols.

 

                3.       On the front of a disabled person’s badge the square box containing the wheelchair symbol and the rectangular box containing the country identifier shall be coloured dark blue.

 

                4.       All other boxes on both sides of a disabled person’s badge shall be coloured white.”.

 

 



[1] Recueil des Lois, Tome VIII, pages 618 and 633 and Nos. 7004, 7072, 8077 and 9294.

[2] No. 7016.


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