The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021

Amendments to the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

5.  In regulation 24 (persons by whom manoeuvres, practical and unitary tests may be conducted)—

(a)for the heading, substitute “Persons by whom manoeuvres tests, large vehicle off road manoeuvres tests, practical tests and unitary tests may be conducted”;

(b)in paragraph (1), in the first line, for “manoeuvres test, practical test” substitute “manoeuvres test, large vehicle off road manoeuvres test, practical test”;

(c)after paragraph (1), insert—

“(1ZA) A large vehicle off road manoeuvres test other than a large vehicle off road manoeuvres test conducted in the circumstances specified in paragraph (2) or (2A) may, subject to the following provisions of this regulation, be conducted by—

(a)a person appointed by a body which has been approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of conducting large vehicle off road manoeuvres tests, and

(b)such person must also be approved in writing by the Secretary of State for the purpose of testing a class of persons specified in the instrument of appointment, and such appointment—

(i)may be made subject to such conditions as are, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, reasonably necessary in the general interests of candidates, and

(ii)where a person so approved breaks such a condition, the Secretary of State may approve another person to carry out large vehicle off road manoeuvres tests in substitution for that person notwithstanding that the first approval has not been revoked.”;

(d)in paragraph (2), for “manoeuvres test, practical test” substitute “manoeuvres test, large vehicle off road manoeuvres test, practical test”;

(e)in paragraph (2A), for “manoeuvres test or a practical test” substitute “manoeuvres test, a large vehicle off road manoeuvres test or a practical test”;

(f)in paragraph (3)—

(i)for “manoeuvres tests, practical tests” substitute “manoeuvres tests, large vehicle off road manoeuvres tests, practical tests”,

(ii)after “paragraph (1)”, insert “, paragraph (1ZA)”;

(g)in paragraph (5), after “paragraph (1)”, insert “, under paragraph (1ZA)”.