Road Traffic Act 1960

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.