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P.S.V. Examinations to be Relaxed

13th July 1962, Page 36
13th July 1962
Page 36
Page 36, 13th July 1962 — P.S.V. Examinations to be Relaxed
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THE Government have decided that in future individual public service vehicles need not necessarily be examined by a certifying officer before being licensed and put into use.

An amendment to the Road Traffic Bill abolishing this legal requirement was accepted by the Standing Committee. Also approved was an amendment making possible the introduction of the system of "type approval" of p.s.v.s.

Mr. John Hay, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, explained that it was clearly the intention when the provisions of the 1960 Road Traffic Act were originally introduced that certification by type approval should become the normal procedure for public service vehicles.

Over the past 30 years p.s.v.s had been certified individually. The type approval procedure had very seldom been invoked by manufacturers, largely because the additional work involved in securing type approval for one vehicle out of a production batch was not worth the manufacturer's while if the remaining vehicles in the batch had still to be examined by a certifying officer, as had to be done under c6 the existing wording of the 1960 Act.

The proposed change would have the effect of leaving it to the discretion of the certifying officer as to whether or not to examine any particular vehicle or vehicles in a batch covered by a Certificate of Conformity.


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