The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

21.—(1) Regulation 63 shall be amended as follows.

(2) For paragraphs (1) and (2) there shall be substituted—

“(1) The certified instructor or the certified direct access instructor who conducted element (E) of the course shall furnish a person who successfully completes an approved training course with a certificate in the form set out in Part 3 of Schedule 12 and signed by that instructor.

(2) A certificate issued under paragraph (1) is not valid for the purposes of regulation 34(6), as evidence of the successful completion of an approved training course, unless—

(a) the person to whom it is issued is at the time of issue eligible to undertake the training course, and

(b) the practical test is conducted no later than the earlier of the following dates, namely—

(i) the relevant expiry date of the certificate, and

(ii) in a case where the person to whom the certificate was given is later disqualified by order of a court under section 36 of the Offenders Act, the date on which the order is made.”.

(3) After paragraph (3) there shall be inserted—

“(4) An approved training body may, if satisfied that a certificate issued to a person who has successfully completed an approved training course conducted by that body has been lost or destroyed, issue a duplicate certificate but may not make a charge exceeding £20.00 in respect of the issue of any one certificate.”.