The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) Regulations 2007

Requirement to carry and produce evidence of CPC or of training exemption in vehicle

11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4), a person who is required to hold a CPC by virtue of regulation 9(1) and who does not carry with him in the vehicle which he is driving evidence of that CPC as specified in paragraph (2) is guilty of an offence.

(2) That evidence may be any of the following documents—

(a) a driver qualification card;

(b) a Community licence with the Community code;

(c) a driver’s certificate granted to him by a member State other than the United Kingdom as referred to in Article 10(3)(a) of the Directive; or

(d) any other document issued to the driver by a member State other than the United Kingdom certifying an initial CPC or a periodic CPC.

(3) A person to whom regulation 4(9) or 9(4) applies who does not carry with him in the vehicle he is driving evidence as specified in paragraph (2) of the initial CPC he holds is guilty of an offence.

(4) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who has made an application to the competent authority for a driver qualification card under regulation 8(1) and not yet received that card.

(5) A person to whom regulation 4(5) applies who does not carry with him in the vehicle he is driving a document as described in sub-paragraph (d) of that regulation is guilty of an offence.

(6) A police constable or vehicle examiner may at any time require a person to whom paragraph (1), (3) or (5) applies to produce to him the evidence or document, as the case may be, referred to in that paragraph.

(7) If a person fails to produce that evidence or document, as the case may be, when required to do so under paragraph (6) he shall be guilty of an offence.

(8) A person guilty of an offence under this regulation shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.