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Part IVGoods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles

Persons under the age of 21

Large goods vehicles drivers' licences issued to persons under the age of 21: trainee drivers

43.—(1) A large goods vehicle driver’s licence issued to a person under the age of 21 shall be subject to the following conditions, prescribed for the purposes of Article 72(1) of the Order(1), namely that—

(a)in the case of any LGV trainee driver’s licence, the holder shall not drive a large goods vehicle of any class in respect of which the licence is issued (or in respect of which it is treated as a provisional licence by virtue of Article 14 of the Order) unless either—

(i)he is a registered employee of a registered employer, and

(ii)the vehicle is a large goods vehicle of a class to which his training agreement applies and is owned or operated by that registered employer or by a registered LGV driver training establishment; or

(b)in the case of a licence holder who is a part-time member of the armed forces of the Crown and the vehicle is owned by the Secretary of State for Defence and used for naval, military or air force purposes.

(2) An LGV trainee driver’s full licence is subject to the conditions that the holder—

(a)is a registered employee of a registered employer;

(b)shall drive only large goods vehicles of a class to which his training agreement applies and which are owned or operated by that registered employer or by a registered LGV driver training establishment; and

(c)shall not drive a vehicle of any class if the vehicle is being used to draw a trailer, otherwise than under the supervision of a person who is present with him in the vehicle and who holds a full large goods vehicle driver’s licence authorising the driving of a vehicle of that class which is not an LGV trainee driver’s licence.

(3) The Holder of an LGV trainee driver’s full licence authorising the driving of a class of large goods vehicles included in category C may not drive large goods vehicles of a class included in category C + E as if he were authorised by a provisional licence to do so before the expiration of a period of two years from the date on which he passed the test for a licence authorising the driving of vehicles of a class included in category C.

(4) In this regulation—

(1)

Article 72(1) as substituted by S.R. 1996 No. 426 Schedule 1 paragraph 14