The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021

• Citation: S.I. 2021/1450
• Sections: 8

Section 1 Citation, commencement and extent

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021.

(2) These Regulations come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made.

(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.

Section 2 Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999 are amended as follows.

Section 3 Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

In regulation 7 (competence to drive classes of vehicle: special cases), omit paragraph (7).

Section 4 Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

In regulation 11 (eligibility to apply for provisional licence), in the table, omit the entry “B + E” in column (1) and the corresponding entry in column (2).

Section 5 Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

In regulation 16 (conditions attached to provisional licences), in paragraph (5), omit “B + E,”.

Section 6 Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

In regulation 19 (full licences and provisional entitlement)—

(a) in paragraph (11), omit “B + E,”; and

(b) in the table, for the entry in column (2) (provisional entitlement included) corresponding to category “B” in column (1) (full licence held), omit “B + E,”.

Section 7 Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

In Schedule 2 (categories and sub-categories of vehicle for licensing purposes), in Part 1, in the table, for the entry in column (3) (additional categories and sub-categories) corresponding to category “B” in column (1) (category or sub-category of licence applied for), after “AM,” insert “B + E,” .

Section 8 Review

(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a) carry out a review of the regulatory provisions contained in these Regulations; and

(b) publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review.

(2) The first report must be published before the end of the period of three years beginning with the date on which these Regulations come into force.

(3) Subsequent reports must be published at intervals not exceeding five years.

(4) Section 30(4) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 requires that a report published under this regulation must, in particular—

(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provision referred to in paragraph (1)(a);

(b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved;

(c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate;

(d) if those objectives remain appropriate, assess the extent to which they could be achieved in another way which involves less onerous regulatory provision.

(5) In this regulation, “ regulatory provision ” has the same meaning as in sections 28 to 32 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (see section 32 of that Act).