The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/515
• Sections: 4

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

Section 2

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large (Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990 shall he amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Section 3

In regulations 3 (Application), in paragraph (2), after the words “except regulations 4,” there shall be inserted “5(2),”.

Section 4

In regulation 10 (Provisional licences and provision entitlement), for paragraphs (4) and (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

(4) A passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence issued as a provisional licence, including a licence which is treated as a provisional licence under section 98(2) and (3), shall be subject to the condition prescribed for the purposes of section 114(1) of the 1988 Act, that the holder shall not drive a passenger-carrying vehicle which he may drive by virtue of the licence while carrying any passenger in the vehicle other than—

(a) the person specified in paragraph (3)(a);

(b) a person specified in regulation 18(5); or

(c) a person who holds a passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence or an existing public service vehicle licence and is giving or receiving instruction in the driving of passenger-carrying vehicles or who has given or received, or is to give or receive, such instruction.

(5) The condition specified in paragraph (3)(a) shall not apply whilst the holder of a provisional licence is undergoing a test; neither of the conditions specified in paragraph (3) nor the condition in paragraph (4) shall apply in relation to the driving of a vehicle of any category when the holder of the licence has passed a test for a vehicle of that category or whilst the holder of the licence is driving a vehicle he is entitled to drive by virtue of regulation 33(1) or 34(2) of the Motor Vehicles Driving Licences) Regulations 1987 .