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Vledical checks for he over-50s
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Medical checks for bus and coach ivers aged 50 and over are being troduced throughout Britain—under a law issed in 1934! This decision follows a inference of Traffic Commissioners, and e regulations have already been imposed is month in the West Midlands traffic ea.
Section 6 of the P.S.V. (Drivers' and onductors' Licences) Regulations, No. 121/34, introduced in 1934, states that psv ivers' licences should not be issued to men ;ed 50 or over unless they have passed a edical examination. Drivers already Ming psv licences will now be required to kSS a medical examination within one onth of their 50th birthday, a further edical within one month of their 56th rthday, then on each occasion the licence renewed up to the age of 65. (i.e. once
• ery three years).
On reaching the age of 65 a driver will we to pass a further medical, and will be ibjected to an annual medical examination :eh ensuing year. The enforcement of this gulation, which carries an obvious safety ctor, follows advice from the British edical Association, and is reported to we been favourably accepted by most of c operators in the West Midlands. It will A affect drivers employed by Midland ed, who are already required to have gular medical cheeks, and many major ierators no doubt carry out similar easures.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Transport, confirming this move, told CM on Monday that slightly different regulations will apply in the Metropolitan traffic area, where psv licences are issued by the Commissioner of Police. Under police regulations, a driver will have to pass a medical within one month of his 50th, 56th, 62nd, and 65th birthdays, and then annually.