Department of the Environment

The Department of the Environment has made a Statutory Rule entitled The Passenger and Goods Vehicles (Recording Equipment) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 S.R. 2005 No.441.

These Regulations provide for the issuing of driver cards, company cards and control cards for use with digital tachographs, which are tachographs complying with Annexes TB and II to the Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport, and for the replacement of cards which expire, are damaged, malfunction, are lost or are stolen.

The Regulations also provide for the payment of specified fees in respect of driver cards, which are held by drivers of vehicles required to be fitted with digital tachographs by the Community Recording Equipment Regulation, and company cards, which are held by the operators of such vehicles.

No fees are payable in respect of workshop cards or control cards.

Copies of the Statutory Rule may be purchased from TSO, 16 Arthur Street, Belfast, BT1 4GD.