The Road Traffic (New Drivers) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

5.—(1) Where the Department—

(a)has received a notice sent to it under paragraph 4 of particulars required to be endorsed or endorsed on the counterpart of a person’s licence; and

(b)has received the person’s test certificate sent to it under paragraph 4(2)(b) or (4)(b) or is satisfied that the person has been issued with a test certificate,

the Department shall by notice served on that person revoke the test certificate.

(2) A revocation under sub-paragraph (1) shall have effect from a date specified in the notice of revocation which shall not be earlier than the date of service of that notice.

(3) The effect of the revocation of a person’s test certificate is that any prescribed conditions to which his provisional licence ceased to be subject when he became a qualified driver shall again apply.