Road Traffic Act 1960

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.