The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996

Applicants for and holders of a licence who are disqualified by order of a court

53.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), where a person’s licence is treated as revoked by virtue of section 37(1) of the Offenders Act the licensing authority may—

(a) order that person to be disqualified indefinitely or for such period as the licensing authority thinks fit under section 117(2)(a) of the Traffic Act; or

(b) (except where the licence treated as revoked by virtue of section 37(1) is a provisional licence) if it appears to the licensing authority that, owing to the conduct of the person, it is expedient to require him to comply with the prescribed conditions applicable to provisional licences until he passes a test—

(i) prescribed in respect of any category of motor vehicle which he was authorised to drive by that licence, and

(ii) which, by virtue of these Regulations, he is at that time eligible to take,

order him to be disqualified for holding or obtaining a full licence until he passes such a test under section 117(2)(b) of the Act.

(2) Where a person’s licence is treated as revoked by virtue of section 37(1) of the Offenders Act and the licensing authority would have been required to revoke that person’s large goods or passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence by virtue of section 115(1)(a) of the Traffic Act and regulation 52 had he not been disqualified by order of a court, the licensing authority must order that person to be disqualified indefinitely or for a period under section 117(1) of the Traffic Act.

(3) The cases in which a person to whom paragraph (2) applies must be disqualified either indefinitely or for a period shall be determined by the licensing authority.

(4) Where the licensing authority determines that a person to whom paragraph (2) applies is to be disqualified for a period that person shall be disqualified until he reaches 21 years of age or for such longer period as the licensing authority may determine.