F1A driver card is to be issued by the Secretary of State on request to a person whose normal residence is in the United Kingdom. F2A driver card is to be issued within one month of the receipt by the F3Secretary of State of the request and all necessary documentation.

For the purposes of this Article, ‘normal residence’ means the place where a person usually lives, that is for at least 185 days in each calendar year, because of personal and occupational ties, or, in the case of a person with no occupational ties, because of personal ties which show close links between that person and the place where he is living.

However, the normal residence of a person whose occupational ties are in a place different from their personal ties and who consequently lives in turn in different places F4... shall be regarded as being the place of their personal ties, provided that such person returns there regularly. This last condition need not be complied with where the person is living in a F5place in order to carry out a fixed-term assignment.

Drivers shall give proof of their normal residence by any appropriate means, such as their F6passport or any other valid document. Where the F7Secretary of State has doubts as to the validity of a statement as to normal residence, or for the purpose of certain specific controls, F8the Secretary of State may request any additional information or evidence.

In duly justified and exceptional cases, F9the Secretary of State may issue a temporary and non-renewable driver card valid for a maximum period of 185 days to a driver who does not have his normal residence in F10the United Kingdom or in a State which is a Contracting Party to the AETR Agreement, provided that such driver is in a labour law relationship with an undertaking established in the F11United Kingdom and, in so far as Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council applies, presents a driver attestation as referred to in that Regulation.

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The F13 Secretary of State shall take appropriate measures to ensure that an applicant does not already hold a valid driver card and shall personalise the driver card, ensuring that its data are visible and secure.

The driver card shall not be valid for more than five years.

A valid driver card shall not be withdrawn or suspended unless the F14Secretary of State finds that the card has been falsified, or the driver is using a card of which he is not the holder, or the card held has been obtained on the basis of false declarations and/or forged documents. F15....

The F17Secretary of State may require a driver to replace the driver card by a new one if this is necessary to comply with the relevant technical specifications.

F18The Secretary of State shall take all necessary measures to prevent driver cards from being falsified.

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