Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force—

(a) for the purposes of regulation 4 and regulation 2 to the extent that it refers to that regulation, on 1st April 1999;

(b) for the purposes of regulation 3 and regulation 2 to the extent that it refers to that regulation, on 6th April 1999;

(c) for all other purposes, on 10th February 1999.

Amendment of Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996

2.  The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996(1) (“the Principal Regulations”) are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 6 below.

3.  In regulation 31(1)(b) for “£15” there shall be substituted “£15.50”.

4.  For the table in Part 1 of Schedule 3 (Table of licence fees) there shall be substituted the table in Schedule 1 below.

5.  Subject to regulation 7 below, for the table in Schedule 5 (Fees for tests) there shall be substituted the table in Schedule 2 below.

6.  After regulation 69 there shall be inserted—

“Examination by an officer of the Secretary of State

69A.— (1) There are prescribed for the purposes of section 94(5)(b)(ii) of the Traffic Act(2) (examination of a licence applicant or holder by an officer of the Secretary of State) the following disabilities—

(a) impairment of visual acuity or of the central or peripheral visual field;

(b) a disability consisting of any one or more of the following—

(i) the absence of one or more limbs,

(ii) the deformity of one or more limbs,

(iii) the loss of use of one or more limbs whether or not progressive in nature, and

(iv) impairment of co-ordination of movement of the limbs or of co-ordination between a limb and the eye;

(c) impairment of cognitive functions or behaviour.

(2) In paragraph (1)(b), a reference to a limb includes a reference to part of a limb, and the reference to loss of use in relation to a limb includes a reference to impairment of limb movement, power or sensation.”.

Transitional provision

7.  Regulation 5 shall not apply in the case of an application for an appointment for a practical or unitary test (as defined in the Principal Regulations) to be conducted on or before 3rd May 1999, in respect of which the provisions of the table in Schedule 5 to the Principal Regulations in force immediately before the making of these Regulations shall apply.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

Larry Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary,Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

11th January 1999

We approve the making of these Regulations

Bob Ainsworth

Jim Dowd

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

14th January 1999