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Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
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Classification of vehicles
3.—(1) Subject to regulation 4, the Department shall grant licences authorising the driving of motor vehicles in accordance with the categories and sub-categories specified in column (1) and defined in column (2) of Schedule 1 and those categories and sub-categories are designated as groups for the purposes of Article 5(1)(b) and 6(4)(a) of the Order.
(2) In these Regulations, expressions relating to vehicle categories have the following meanings—
(a)any reference to a category or sub-category identified by letter, number or word or by a combination thereof is a reference to the category or sub-category defined in column (2) of Schedule 1 opposite that letter or combination in column (1);
(b)“sub-category” means, in relation to category A, B, C, C + E, D or D + E, a class of vehicles comprising part of the category and identified as a sub-category thereof in column (2) of Schedule 1; and
(c)unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a category includes a reference to sub-categories of that category.
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