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Changes over time for: Section 76
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Version Superseded: 19/01/2013
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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999, Section 76.
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Effect of change in classification of vehicles for licensing purposesE+W+S
76.—(1) In a licence (whether full or provisional) granted before 1st January 1997, a reference to motor vehicles in an old category shall be construed as a reference to motor vehicles in the new category corresponding thereto and a reference to motor vehicles of a class included in an old category shall be construed as a reference to vehicles of the corresponding class included in the new category.
(2) Where a licence granted before 1st January 1997 authorises only the driving of a class of motor vehicles included in an old category having automatic transmission, it shall authorise the driving of the corresponding class of vehicles in the new category having automatic transmission.
(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), a reference in a licence to motor vehicles in an old category (or a class included in that category) includes a reference in a licence granted before 1st June 1990 to a group or class of motor vehicles which is, by virtue of any enactment, to be construed as a reference to vehicles in the old category (or a class included in that category).
(4) In this regulation—
“old category" and “class included in an old category" mean respectively a category and a class of vehicles specified in column (1) of the table at the end of this regulation,
“new category" and “class included in a new category", in relation to an old category, mean respectively the category (or, as the case may be, the sub-category) and the class of vehicles specified in column (2) of the table as corresponding to the relevant old category or class included therein, and
“section 19 permit" means a permit granted under section 19 of the 1985 Act.
TABLE
(1) Old category or class | (2) Corresponding new category or class |
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A | A |
B1 | B1 |
B1, limited to invalid carriages | B1 (invalid carriages) |
B | B |
B plus E | B+E |
C1 | C1 |
C1 plus E | C1+E (8.25 tonnes) |
C | C |
C plus E | C+E |
C plus E, limited to drawbar trailer combinations only | Vehicles in category C+E which are drawbar trailer combinations |
D1 | D1 (not for hire or reward) |
D1 plus E | D1+E (not for hire or reward) |
D, limited to 16 seats | D1 |
D, limited to vehicles not more than 5.5 metres in length | D1 and vehicles in category D not more than 5.5 metres in length |
D, limited to vehicles not driven for hire or reward | Vehicles in category D which are either driven while being used in accordance with a section 19 permit or, if not being so used, driven otherwise than for hire or reward |
D | D |
D plus E | D+E |
F | F |
G | G |
H | H |
K | K |
L | L |
P | P |
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