The Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

6.—(1) Article 15 (duration of licences)(2) shall be amended in accordance with sub-paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In paragraph (4), after “motor bicycle”, in each place where the words occur, there shall be inserted “or moped”.

(3) In paragraph (6), the words from “and provide it” to the end of the paragraph shall be omitted.

(4) For paragraph (8) and (9) there shall be substituted–

“(8) On the surrender of a licence and its counterpart by a person in pursuance of paragraph (5) or (6), the Department must (subject to the following provisions of this Article) grant a new licence to that person and any licence granted under this paragraph shall be granted free of charge.

(8A) Where the surrendered licence was revoked–

(a) because it was granted in error or in consequence of an error or omission appearing to the Department to be attributable to the fault of the licence holder; or

(b) in consequence of a current disqualification,

paragraph (8) shall not apply but the Department may, if the person is not currently disqualified, grant a new licence to that person on payment of the fee (if any) which is prescribed.

(8B) The Department may require a person to provide–

(a) evidence of his name, address, sex and date and place of birth, and

(b) a photograph which is a current likeness of him,

before granting a new licence to him under paragraph (8) or (8A).

(9) A replacement licence granted pursuant to paragraph (8) or (8A) shall expire on the date on which the surrendered licence would have expired had it not been surrendered except that, where the period for which the surrendered licence was granted was based on an error with respect to the licence holder’s date of birth such that (if that error had not been made) that licence would have been expressed to expire on a different date, the replacement licence shall expire on that different date.”.

(1)

Articles 4 to 19E were substituted by Schedule 1 to S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3); relevant amendments were made by Article 7 of S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3), Article 92 of S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18) and S.R. 1996 No. 426, Schedule 1; Articles 70 to 79 were substituted by Schedule 3 to S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3)

(2)

Article 15 was amended by S.R. 1996 No. 426, Schedule 1 paragraph 7