The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulations 3, 15, 16, 18, 20 and 21 of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990. The changes made, which all relate to driving tests, are as follows.

First by new regulation 15B) a new facility is introduced enabling organisations which undertake the training of large goods and passenger-carrying vehicle drivers to pre-book appointments for tests, either singly or otherwise, upon payment of the appropriate fee but without having to name a candidate to take the test at the time of booking. The name of the candidate must be provided, and more detailed information given, before the expiration of a specified period so that the test may properly arranged.

Secondly the tractive unit of an articulated goods vehicle (which unit is, confusingly, defined as an “articulated goods vehicle” in section 108(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988) is declared to be unsuitable for use in driving tests for category C (large non-articulated trucks, etc).

The regulations also make minor and consequential amendments of which some (relating to regulations 3 and 12A of the principal Regulations) are consequential on the making of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licence) (Amensment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/211).

No change has been made to the fees.