RECENT LEGISLATION • Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1994.
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Increases the fees for ordinary driving tests from £26.00 to £27.50 for weekdays and from £36.00 to £37.50 for evenings and weekends.
Effective Date-1 April 1994.
• Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Large Goods & Passenger Carrying Vehicles (Amendment) Regulations 1994. Increases the fees for tests in relation to large goods and passenger carrying vehicles from £60.00 to £62.00 for weekdays and from £77.50 to 0£80.00 for Saturdays. Effective Date-1 April 1994.
• Carriage of dangerous Goods by Road and Rail (Classification, Packaging and Labelling) Regulations 1994.
Reviews the consignment of dangerous goods by road or rail and replaces carriage provisions of the Chemicals (Hazardous Information & Packaging) Regulation 1993, in that they now require United Nations specification packaging for most dangerous goods.
Effective Date-1 April 1994.
• Quick Frozen Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1994.
Now implements EEC directives relating to the monitoring of temperatures of quick frozen foods during transport, warehousing, storage and the sampling procedures.
Effective Date-1 September 1994.
• Goods Vehicles (Plating & Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 1994.
Implements changes to the particulars entered on a plating certificate to accord with the new legislation permitting maximum weight increases for certain combinations.
Effective Date-24 March 1994.
• Road Vehicles (Construction & Use) (Amendment) (No 2) Regulations 1994. Allow for an increase in weight limits to 44 tonnes for articulated lorries and drawbar trailer operations carrying containers, swap bodies, "6I-model" semi-trailers to or from rail terminals. It also increases the weight limit for drawbar trailer combinations on five or more axles to 38 tonnes with restrictions on the drive axle. It also applies a 4.2 metre height limit to articulated lorries and drawbar combinations over 35 tonnes gross vehicle weight.