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The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008

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Initial CPC test

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7.  After regulation 5 insert—

Further requirements at tests: initial CPC test

5A.(1) A person submitting himself for either the theoretical test or the practical test shall before the test commences—

(a)produce to the person conducting the test an appropriate licence authorising him to drive a motor vehicle of a class included in the category in respect of which the test is to be taken and, where that licence has a counterpart, the counterpart of that licence; and

(b)except where he has produced an appropriate licence containing his photograph, satisfy the person conducting the test as to his identity in accordance with paragraph (3).

(2) A person submitting himself for either the theoretical test or the practical test who produces a licence which fails to satisfy the person conducting the test, after an examination or otherwise, that it is an appropriate licence as required under paragraph (1) must surrender the licence forthwith to the person conducting the test.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation, a person conducting a test may be satisfied as to a person’s identity from a valid passport.

(4) In this regulation, “appropriate licence” means a licence authorising the person submitting himself for the test to drive a motor vehicle of a class included in the category in respect of which the test is to be taken which—

(a)is either—

(i)a driving licence;

(ii)a provisional licence within the meaning of section 108(1) of the 1988 Act or article 19D(1)(1) of the 1981 Order; or

(iii)a Community licence;

(b)is valid at the date of the test; and

(c)bears the signature of the person who has submitted himself for the test..

(1)

Article 19D(1) was inserted by the Road Traffic (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/197 (N.I.3)) (article 3).

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