Tests of competence to drive

20.  In regulation 37 (test vehicles)—

(a)in paragraph (1) for “F, G, H, K or P” substitute “AM, F, G, H or K”;

(b)after paragraph (2) insert—

“(2A) Where in an application for a manoeuvres test or a practical test prescribed in respect of category AM it is declared that the applicant is suffering from a relevant disability of such a nature that the applicant is unable to ride a moped with two wheels, that test shall be conducted on a specially adapted two-wheeled moped, a three-wheeled moped or a light quadricycle.”;

(c)for paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3) Where in an application for a manoeuvres test or a practical test prescribed in respect of category A it is declared that the applicant is suffering from a relevant disability of such a nature that the applicant is unable to ride a motor bicycle without side-car, the test shall be conducted—

(a)in the case of the test for a licence authorising the driving of a vehicle in sub-category A1, on an A1 motor tricycle or an A1 motorcycle with side-car where the capacity and unassisted speed on the level of the motor tricycle or the motor bicycle, as appropriate, is equivalent to or greater than that shown in relation to sub-category A1 in column (2) of the table;

(b)in the case of the test for a licence authorising the driving of a vehicle in sub-category A2, on an A2 motorcycle with side-car where the capacity and power output of the motor bicycle is equivalent to or greater than that shown in relation to sub-category A2 in column (2) of the table;

(c)in the case of the test for a licence authorising the driving of a vehicle in sub-category A3, on an A3 motor tricycle or an A3 motorcycle with side-car where the capacity and power output of the motor tricycle or the motor bicycle, as appropriate, is equivalent to or greater than that shown in relation to sub-category A3 in column (2) of the table.”;

(d)in paragraph (4)(a) after “(2)” insert “, (2A)”;

(e)in paragraph (5)(a) omit paragraph (i) and “or” at the end of that sub-paragraph;

(f)in paragraph (6) omit sub-paragraph (a) and “or” at the end of that sub-paragraph; and

(g)in the table at the end of the regulation—

(i)before the first entry in column (1) and the corresponding entry in column (2) insert, respectively “AM” and “Any two-wheeled moped”;

(ii)for the entries “A, in the case of a test for a licence authorising the driving of large motor bicycles”, “A, in the case of any other test” and “A1” in column (1) and the corresponding entries in column (2) substitute—

; and