Amendments to the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999
2.—(1) The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999(1) are amended as follows.
(2) After regulation 7(10), insert—
“(11) A person who holds a relevant full licence authorising the driving of vehicles included in category B, and who has undertaken a minimum of five hours training by a registered instructor on the driving of an alternatively fuelled vehicle with a maximum authorised mass exceeding 3,500 kilograms, may drive such a vehicle provided its maximum authorised mass does not exceed 4,250 kilograms, when that vehicle—
(a)is being driven for the purpose of transporting goods;
(b)is not being driven outside the territory of Great Britain;
(c)has no trailer attached.
(12) For the purposes of this regulation —
“an alternatively fuelled vehicle” means a motor vehicle powered by—
electricity, natural gas, biogas or hydrogen; or
hydrogen and electricity; and
“a registered instructor” means a person who is on the National Register of LGV instructors(2) or the National Vocational Driving Instructors Register(3).”.
S.I. 1999/2864; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2012/977, S.I. 2014/613 and S.I. 2014/3190. There are other amendments that are not relevant to these Regulations.