H.G.V. Drivers' Licence Regulations
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THE Heavy Goods Vehicles (Drivers' Licences) Regulations, 1936, dated November. 25, come into force on January I next, and revoke the previous Regulations, except that nothing in them will affect the operation, prior to the latter date, of the 1935 Regulations.
The application must be made to the appropriate Authority on a special form. No licence will be granted unless the Authority is satisfied that the applicant is a fit person to be licensed. He may require the applicant to provide evidence that he fulfils the requirements as to age, that he can read and write, and is acquainted with the provisions of the Highway Code; he must also declare whether he be suffering from any disease or disability likely to interfere with his -duties, or to be a source of danger, and submit to a practical test of his ability to drive heavy goods vehicles of the class or classes specified in his application, providing an appropriate vehicle or vehicles.
A provisional licence (not subject to test) to be used under supervision of a person authorized to drive similar vehicles may be issued.
A licence may be limited to vehicles of any one or more of the following classes:—(a) locomotives, (b) motor tractors and heavy motorcars (not articulated) electrically propelled, (c) motor tractors and heavy motorcars (not articulated) propelled by steam, (d) motor tractors and heavy Motorcars (not articulated) propelled by any other means, (e) articulated vehicles.
The fee for a licence (including the provisional) for a period of less than two years is Is.; for two years or more but less than three, 2s. ; three years, 3s.
C.M.U.A. and A.R.O. Merger.
The C.M.U.A. announces that as the merger seems no nearer, as the result of the A.R.O. meeting on December 15 (reported on this page), its President has acted upon .the terms of a resolution passed by the National Council on November 19. By this, the President was empowered to act upon his own discretion, and after December 15 to invite members of the A,R.O. National Council, who are Prepared to support the C.M.U.A. roadtransport policy, to be co-opted as members of its Council. This invitation has been communicated to ,-the chairman of the A.R.O., expressing,the hope that the desire of the C.M.U.A. National Council in this direction will be implemented.