Persons providing periodic training coursesU.K.

6.—(1) A person who wishes to provide periodic training courses must make a written application to the competent authority and shall pay to it a fee of—

(a)£1,500, and

[F1(b)for each course which he proposes to provide, a sum equal to £36 multiplied by the proposed duration of the course in hours and for this purpose part of an hour shall be treated as one hour.]

[F2(1A) The competent authority may waive the fee in paragraph (1) or (8) in whole or part if it thinks fit.]

(2) Such application must be accompanied by the documents specified in Section 5.1 of Annex I to the Directive and such other documents as the competent authority may reasonably require.

(3) The competent authority may approve in writing —

(a)that person to provide periodic training courses subject to the conditions specified in Section 5.2 of Annex I to the Directive, including the last two paragraphs of that Section; and

(b)each periodic training course which that person wishes to provide.

(4) The competent authority's approval shall be valid for —

(a)five years under paragraph (3)(a), and

(b)one year under paragraph (3)(b).

[F3(5) Where it appears to the competent authority that—

(a)any conditions of an approval given under paragraph (3)(a) are not being complied with; or

(b)an approval under paragraph (3)(a) or (b) or (9) was given in error,

the competent authority may send notice to the person to whom the approval was given that it is minded to withdraw or suspend its approval.]

(6) Upon receiving a notice under paragraph (5), that person may make representations to the competent authority within 28 days.

(7) The competent authority shall take those representations into account and send notice to the person informing him whether or not its approval is withdrawn or suspended.

(8) A person approved under paragraph (3)(a) who wishes to provide a training course which has not been approved by the competent authority may at any time request that authority's approval for that course and shall pay to that authority [F4the fee prescribed in paragraph (1)(b)].

(9) If the competent authority gives approval in response to a request under paragraph (8), that approval shall be valid for one year.

[F5(10) A person to whom these Regulations apply may take a periodic training course approved under this regulation if that person is—

[F6(za)a national of the United Kingdom;]

(a)a national of a member State and normally resident in the United Kingdom;

(b)a national of a member State and works in the United Kingdom, or

(c)a national of a third country and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.]

[F7(11) A person conducting a periodic training course must be satisfied as to the identity of the person taking the course before the course commences from—

(a)an appropriate licence as defined in regulation 5A(4);

(b)a valid passport;

(c)a valid driver card; F8...

(d)a valid driver qualification card [F9; or

(e)a valid Swiss CPC containing a photograph of its holder and recognised by the competent authority as a valid form of identification for the purposes of this regulation].]