103Transitional provisions

103 Transitional provisions

S. 103(1) amended by No. 44/1989 s. 41(Sch. 2 item 34.4).

(1) If immediately before the commencement of this subsection a person holds a licence or permit issued under the Motor Car Act 1958 and that licence or permit expires on or after that commencement, the Corporation may, in accordance with this Act and the regulations, grant a licence or permit to that person which, in the opinion of the Corporation, corresponds to the licence or permit previously held by that person.

S. 103(1A) inserted by No. 53/1989 s. 19.

(1A) A driver's licence that was issued under the Motor Car Act 1958 and was valid immediately before 1 May 1987 must, on and after that date, be taken to be a driver licence granted under Part 3 of this Act despite the definition of driver licence in section 3(1) of this Act.

S. 103(2) amended by No. 53/1989 s. 21(6).

(2) A motor car driver's licence which was issued, but not indorsed, under the Motor Car Act 1958 and which was valid immediately before the commencement of this subsection—

(a) authorises the holder to drive a motor vehicle of 3 tonnes tare or less, until 3 years after that commencement; and

S. 103(2)(b) amended by No. 57/1998 s. 5(2)(c).

(b) does not authorise the holder to drive a motor vehicle of more than 4⋅5 tonnes GVM, after the 3 years, and the holder is not authorised to drive such a vehicle after that time unless he or she obtains an appropriate authorisation under this Act.

(3) If immediately before the commencement of this subsection a police station was a registration office within the meaning of the Motor Car Act 1958 then, on and from that commencement, the member of the police force for the time being in charge of that police station is to be taken to be, by force of this subsection, a delegate of the Authority in relation to the registration of motor vehicles and trailers until the Authority by instrument under its common seal otherwise provides.

(4) If immediately before the commencement of thissubsection an articulated motor car within themeaning of the Motor Car Act 1958 is registered under that Act and on that commencement the semi-trailer component of thearticulated motor car is exempt from registration, the registration of the articulated motor car is, on that commencement, to be taken to be the registration of the prime-mover component of the articulated motor car.

(5) If immediately before the commencement of this subsection an articulated motor car within the meaning of the Motor Car Act 1958 is registered under that Act and on that commencement the semi-trailer component of the articulated motor car is not exempt from registration, the registration of the articulated motor car is, on that commencement, to be taken to be the separate registration of the prime-mover and the semi-trailer components of the articulated motor car.