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

Disabilities

6.—(1) The following disabilities are prescribed as relevant disabilities for the purposes of section 92(2) of the 1988 Act in relation to large goods vehicle or passenger-carrying vehicle drivers' licences (in addition to the disabilities prescribed by regulation 24 of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987)—

(a) an epileptic attack since attaining the age of 5 years;

(b) abnormal sight in one or both eyes where—

(i) in the case of a person who held an existing licence on 1st January 1983 and who holds such a licence on 1st April 1991, the visual acuity is worse than 6/12 with the better eye and worse than 6/36 with the other eye and, if corrective lenses are worn, the uncorrected acuity in each eye is worse than 3/60, or

(ii) in any other case, the visual acuity is worse than 6/9 in the better eye and worse than 6/12 in the other eye and, if corrective lenses are worn, the uncorrected acuity in each eye is worse than 3/60;

(c) sight in only one eye unless—

(i) in the case of a person who held an existing licence on 1st January 1983 and who holds such a licence on 1st April 1991 the traffic commissioner in whose area he resides or the traffic commissioner who granted the last-mentioned licence knew of the disability before 1st January 1991 and the visual acuity in that eye is no worse than 6/12, or

(ii) in the case of a person who did not hold an existing licence on 1st January 1983 but who holds an existing licence on 1st April 1991 the traffic commissioner in whose area he resides or the traffic commissioner who granted the last-mentioned licence knew of the disability before 1st January 1991 and the visual acuity in that eye is no worse than 6/9;

(d) diabetes subject to insulin treatment unless the person in question held, on 1st April 1991, an existing licence and the traffic commissioner in whose area he resides or the traffic commissioner who granted the licence knew of the disability before 1st January 1991.

(2) In this regulation references to measurements of visual acuity are references to visual acuity measured on the Snellen Scale.