The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1996

8.  For regulation 29 (Entitlement to categories) there shall be substituted—

“Categories of entitlement

29.— (1) Subject to paragraph (3), licences shall be granted authorising the driving of motor vehicles in accordance with the categories specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 3 and those categories are designated as groups for the purposes of section 89(1)(b)(1) and 89A(4)(a)(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to category B means that category including sub-category B1.

(3) Where a person holds, or has held, a licence authorising him to drive vehicles of a class included in any category he is deemed competent to drive—

(a) vehicles of all classes included in that category unless by that licence he is or was authorised to drive—

(i) only motor vehicles having automatic transmission, in which case he shall be deemed competent to drive only such classes of vehicle included in that category as have automatic transmission;

(ii) only invalid carriages, in which case he shall be deemed competent to drive only such classes of vehicle included in category B1 as are invalid carriages;

(iii) only motor vehicles adapted on account of a disability, in which case he shall be deemed competent to drive only such classes of vehicle included in that category as are so adapted; and

(b) all classes of vehicle included in any other category which is specified in column (3) of Schedule 3 as an additional category in relation to that category unless by that licence he is or was authorised to drive—

(i) only motor vehicles having automatic transmission and the additional category is C1, D1, B plus E, C1 plus E or D1 plus E, in which case he shall be deemed competent to drive only such classes of motor vehicle included in the additional category as have automatic transmission;

(ii) only invalid carriages, in which case he shall be deemed competent to drive only such classes of vehicle included in category B1 as are invalid carriages;

(iii) only motor vehicles adapted on account of a disability, in which case he shall be deemed competent to drive only such classes of vehicle included in the additional category as are so adapted.”.

(1)

Inserted by section 4(2) of the 1989 Act.

(2)

Section 89A was inserted by section 4(4) of the 1989 Act.