Road Traffic Act 1960

Sections 198 and 199.

FIFTEENTH SCHEDULE Transitional Provisions relating to Licences to drive Heavy Goods Vehicles

1 On the first application for a heavy goods vehicle driver's licence made, on or after the day of the making of the order appointing a day for the purposes of section one hundred and ninety-two of this Act, by a person who satisfies the licensing authority that in the course of the year ending on the first-mentioned day he has been during any period or periods of, or amounting in the aggregate to, six months, in the habit of driving a heavy goods vehicle, and on payment of the fee prescribed for the purposes of section one hundred and ninety-six of this Act, the licensing authority shall grant the licence, and the provisions of subsection (2) of section one hundred and ninety-three of this Act shall not apply in relation to such an application.

2 On the first application for a heavy goods vehicle driver's licence by a person who satisfies the licensing authority that in the course of the year ending on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, he had been during any period or periods of, or amounting in the aggregate to, six months, in the habit of driving a heavy goods vehicle (other than a person who at any time held a licence to drive such a vehicle granted under section thirty-one of the Road Traffic Act, 1934, by virtue of subsection (6) of that section), and on payment of the fee prescribed for the purposes of section one hundred and ninety-six of this Act, the licensing authority shall grant the licence and the provisions of subsection (2) of section one hundred and ninety-three of this Act shall not apply in relation to such an application.

3 Subsection (1) of section one hundred and ninety-two of this Act shall not have effect as respects—

(a) the driving of a heavy goods vehicle of any class by a person who, at the beginning of the appointed day, is the holder of a licence granted under Part II of this Act authorising him to drive a heavy goods vehicle of that class, or

(b) the employment, to drive a heavy goods vehicle of any class, of a person who at the beginning of the appointed day is the holder of such a licence authorising him to drive a heavy goods vehicle of that class,

so long as (in either case) the licence in question remains in force.

4 With a view to spreading the work of granting heavy goods vehicle drivers' licences the licensing authority may, on an application for a licence made within the period of four years beginning with the day of the making of the order appointing a day for the purposes of section one hundred and ninety-two of this Act, direct that any licence granted on the application, other than a licence issued as a provisional licence, shall, notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (4) of section one hundred and ninety-three of this Act, continue in force (unless previously revoked) during such period, being a period of not less than one nor more than three years from the date on which the licence is expressed to take effect, as the licensing authority may at the time of the granting of the licence determine.