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Road Traffic Act 1974

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4(1)In section 88, in subsection (1) (grant of licences) for the words " payment of the prescribed fee " there shall be substituted the words

“payment of such fee, if any, as may be prescribed”.

(2)In subsection (2) of that section (provisional licences) after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

“(bb)may, in the case of a person appearing to the Secretary of State to be suffering from a relevant disability or a prospective disability, within the meaning of section 87 of this Act,

be restricted so as to authorise only the driving of vehicles of a particular construction or design specified in the licence ; and”.

(3)At the beginning of subsection (4) of that section (licences to drive motor vehicles of certain classes to operate as provisional licences to drive those of other classes) there shall be inserted the words

“Subject to subsection (4A) below”and at the end of the subsection there shall be added the following subsection—

“(4A)In such cases as the Secretary of State may prescribe, the provisions of subsection (4) above shall not apply or shall apply subject to such limitations as he may prescribe.”

(4)In subsection (5) of that section (subsection (4) not to apply to certain licences) the words " or any other licence of a description prescribed for the purposes of this subsection " shall be omitted.

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