The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

Large goods vehicles drivers' licences issued to persons under the age of 21: trainee drivers

54.—(1) A large goods vehicle driver’s licence granted to a person under the age of 21 is subject to the conditions prescribed, for the purposes of section 114(1) of the Traffic Act, in the following paragraphs.

(2) In the case of an LGV trainee driver’s licence, whether issued as a provisional or a full licence or treated as a provisional licence by virtue of section 98 of the Traffic Act and regulation 19, the holder shall not drive a large goods vehicle of any class which the licence authorises him to drive unless—

(a) he is a registered employee of a registered employer, and

(b) the vehicle is a large goods vehicle of a class to which his training agreement applies and is owned or operated by that registered employer or by a registered LGV driver training establishment.

(3) In the case of a licence held by a person who is a member of the armed forces of the Crown, the holder shall not drive a large goods vehicle of any class unless it is owned or operated by the Secretary of State for Defence and is being used for naval, military or air force purposes.

(4) In the case of an LGV trainee driver’s full licence, the holder shall not drive a large goods vehicle of any class if the vehicle is being used to draw a trailer except under the supervision of a person who is present with him in the vehicle and who holds a full large goods vehicle driver’s licence authorising the driving of a vehicle of that class which is not an LGV trainee driver’s licence.

(5) In the case of an LGV trainee driver’s full licence authorising the driving of a class of vehicles included in category C, the holder shall not drive large goods vehicles of a class included in category C+E, other than vehicles included in sub-category C1+E the maximum authorised mass of which does not exceed 7.5 tonnes, as if he were authorised by a provisional licence to do so before the expiration of a period of two years commencing on the date on which he passed the test for that full licence.

(6) In this regulation—

• “LGV trainee driver’s licence” means a large goods vehicle driver’s licence which—

  (a)

  authorises its holder to drive vehicles of a class included in category C or C+E,

  (b)

  is held by a person, other than a member of the armed forces of the Crown, who was under the age of 21 on the date of the application, and

  (c)

  is in force for a period during the whole or part of which that person is under the age of 21;

• “registered”, in relation to an employee, employer or training establishment, means registered for the time being by the Training Committee in accordance with the Training Scheme;

• “training agreement”, in relation to an individual who is undergoing, or is to undergo, driver training under the Training Scheme, means the agreement between that individual and a registered employer;

• “the Training Committee” means the National Joint Training Committee for Young LGV Drivers in the Road Goods Transport Industry which is referred to in the Training Scheme;

• “the Training Scheme” means the Young Large Goods Vehicle (LGV) Drivers Training Scheme which has been established by the Road Haulage and Distribution Training Council and approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of regulations under section 101(2) of the Traffic Act on 30th September 1996 for training young drivers of large goods vehicles.