R&O – 137/2003
Road Traffic (No. 54) (Jersey) Regulations 2003
Made 25th November 2003
Coming into force 2nd
December 2003
THE STATES, in pursuance of the Order in Council of 26th December 1851[1] and Article 49 of the Road
Traffic (Jersey) Law 1956,[2] have made the following
Regulations –
1 Interpretation
In these Regulations “Law” means the Road Traffic (Jersey) Law 1956.[3]
2 Article
3 amended
In Article 3 of the Law[4] –
(a) in
paragraphs (3A) and (3B) the words “or renewed” shall be deleted;
(b) at
the beginning of paragraph (3C) there shall be inserted the words
“Subject to paragraph (3CA) of this Article,”;
(c) after
paragraph (3C) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –
(a) a licence holder applies to renew his or her
licence (the “current licence”) without any alteration to the class
or description of motor vehicles which the licence holder is authorized by the
current licence to drive;
(b) the application is made, in the prescribed
manner, before the expiry of the period for which the current licence is in
force;
(c) the licence is granted before the expiry of
the period for which the current licence would have remained in force had it not
been surrendered,
the licence granted shall
remain in force for a period being the aggregate of –
(i) the remainder of the period for which
the current licence would have remained in force had it not been surrendered,
and
(ii) the period, commencing upon the expiry
of the period described in clause (i) of this paragraph, applicable in the
licence holder’s case under paragraph (3), (3A) or (3B) of this
Article.”.
3 Citation
and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (No. 54)
(Jersey) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force 7 days after they are made.
M.N. DE LA HAYE
Greffier of the States.
[1] Recueil des Lois, Tomes I-III, page 196.
[2] Recueil des Lois, Tome VIII, page 636.
[3] Recueil des Lois, Tome VIII, page 579 and
Nos. 6998, 7004, 7020, 7072, 7081, 7219, 7229, 7411, 7472, 7495, 7700, 7878,
7917, 8016, 8076, 8077, 8096, 8150, 8160, 8196, 8340, 8457, 8624, 8722, 9116,
9180, 9205, 9294, 9308, 31/2001, 178/2001 and 50/2002.
[4] Recueil des Lois, Tome VIII, page 585 and
Nos. 8077 and 8624.