Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Amendment to regulation 50 (disabilities prescribed in respect of Group 1 licences)

4.  In regulation 50 of the principal Regulations, for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted –

“(1) There is prescribed for the purposes of Article 9(2) of the Order as a relevant disability in relation to an applicant for, or a person who holds, a Group 1 licence, the inability to read in good light (with the aid of glasses or contact lenses if worn) a registration mark fixed to a motor vehicle in accordance with paragraphs (a) and (b) –

(a) Where the registration mark contains letters and figures 79 millimetres high and 57 millimetres wide, the test shall be conducted at a distance of –

(i) 12.3 metres, in the case of an application for a licence authorising only the driving of motor vehicles of a class included in category K;

(ii) 20.5 metres, in any other case.

(b) Where the registration mark contains letters and figures 79 millimetres high and 50 millimetres wide, the tests shall be conducted at a distance of –

(i) 12 metres, in the case of an application for a licence authorising only the driving of motor vehicles of a class included in category K;

(ii) 20 metres, in any other case.”.