The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990

Provisional licences and provisional entitlement

10.—(1) The entitlement to drive vehicles in category C, D, C plus E or D plus E subject to the same conditions as a provisional licence holder conferred by section 98(2) and (3) of the 1988 Act shall not apply in the case of the holder of a full licence to drive vehicles of category B.

(2) The entitlement to drive vehicles in category C or C plus E subject to the same conditions as a provisional licence holder conferred by section 98(2) and (3) of the 1988 Act shall not apply in the case of the holder of a full licence to drive vehicles of category D or D plus E, and the entitlement to drive vehicles in category D or D plus E subject to those conditions shall not apply in the case of the holder of a full licence to drive vehicles of category C or C plus E.

(3) Subject to paragraph (5), a large goods vehicle or passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence issued as a provisional licence, including a full licence which is treated as a provisional licence under section 98(2) and (3), shall be subject to the following conditions prescribed for the purposes of section 114(1) of the 1988 Act, that is to say, the holder shall not drive a vehicle of any category which he may drive by virtue of the licence—

(a) otherwise than under the supervision of a person who is present with him in the vehicle and who holds a full licence or a full existing licence to drive the vehicle; and

(b) unless there is clearly displayed in a conspicuous manner on the front and on the back of the vehicle a distinguishing mark—

(i) before a date 5 years after these Regulations come into force, in either form A or B set out in Schedule 4, or

(ii) on or after that date, in form B only.

(4) A passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence issued as a provisional licence, including a licence which is treated as a provisional licence under section 98(2) and (3), shall be subject to the condition prescribed for the purposes of section 114(1) of the 1988 Act that the holder shall not drive a passenger-carrying vehicle which he may drive by virtue of the licence while carrying any passenger in the vehicle other than the person specified in paragraph (3)(a) above or in regulation 18(5).

(5) The condition specified in paragraph (3)(a) shall not apply whilst the holder of a provisional licence is undergoing a test and none of the conditions specified in the said paragraph (3) nor the condition in paragraph (4) shall apply in relation to the driving of a vehicle of any category where the holder of the licence has passed a test for a vehicle of that category.

(6) This regulation shall not apply to lgv trainee drivers and lgv trainee drivers' licences.