The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Amendment of regulation 43 (entitlement upon passing a test other than an appropriate driving test)

8.—(1) Regulation 43 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1) for “paragraphs (2), (3) and (4)” there shall be substituted “the following provisions of this regulation”.

(3) In paragraph (2) for “regulation 44” there shall be substituted “regulations 44 and 44A”.

(4) In paragraph (3) after “The licence shall” there shall be inserted “, subject to paragraph (5),”.

(5) After paragraph (4) there shall be in inserted the following paragraph—

“(5) Where a person has passed a test (or Northern Ireland test of competence corresponding to such a test) for a licence authorising the driving of vehicles included in category B, the effect of paragraph (3) in relation to the driving of vehicles in category P shall be as follows—

(a) the licence granted by the Secretary of State shall authorise the driving of vehicles within class P if and only if—

(i) the test was passed before 1st February 2001;

(ii) the person concerned held at the date on which he passed the test the prescribed certificate of successful completion by him of an approved training course for motor cyclists and that certificate was at that time valid in accordance with regulation 68(2); or

(iii) the person concerned holds the prescribed certificate of successful completion by him of an approved training course for motor cyclists and that certificate was furnished to him after the date on which he passed the test, and

(b) where a certificate referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(ii) or (iii) shows that the person concerned has successfully completed an approved training course for riders of three-wheeled mopeds, the only vehicles in category P authorised by the licence to be driven shall be three-wheeled mopeds.”