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3696476The Motor Cycles ( Protective Helmets) Regulations, 19571957UK Govt
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USE OF HIGHWAYS

1957 No. 406

The Motor Cycles ( Protective Helmets) Regulations, 1957

Made 12th March, 1957
Laid before Parliament 18th March, 1957
Coming into Force 1st April, 1957

The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation in exercise of his powers under section 42 of the Road Traffic Act, 1956[1], (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") and of all other powers him enabling in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.—(1) These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of April, 1957, and may be cited as "The Motor Cycles (Protective Helmets) Regulations, 1957".

(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889(b)[2], shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

2. For the purposes of section 42 of the Act any helmet which in its shape, construction and other qualities complies with the requirements specified in British Standard 2001 of 1956 as amended by Amendment No. 1, published 11th January, 1957, or in British Standard 1869 of 1952, as amended by Amendment No. 1, published 10th May, 1956, is hereby prescribed to be a type of helmet recommended as affording protection to persons on or in motor cycles from injury in the event of accident.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation this twelfth day of March, 1957.

(L.S.)

Harold Watkinson,

The Minister of Transport and
Civil Aviation.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of these Regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport.)

Section 42 of the Road Traffic Act, 1956, makes it an offence for any person to sell or hire or offer to sell or hire any helmet as a helmet affording protection to motor cyclists in the event of accident which is neither of a type prescribed nor of a type authorised under Regulations made by the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation as being a helmet recommended as affording such protection.

These Regulations prescribe the types of helmet which may be sold or hired to motor cyclists as helmets which are recommended as affording protection in the event of accident.

  1. ↑ (a) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 67.
  2. ↑ (b) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63
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