Transport Act 1981

12 For section 101(7) there are substituted the following subsections : —

“(7) A person whose licence has been ordered to be endorsed (whether under this section or a previous enactment) shall be entitled to have a new licence issued to him free from the endorsement if, after the end of the period for which the endorsement remains effective, he applies for a new licence in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 88 of this Act, surrenders any subsisting licence, pays the prescribed fee and satisfies the other requirements of mat subsection.

(7A) An endorsement ordered on a person's conviction of an offence remains effective—

(a) if an order is made for the disqualification of the offender, until four years have elapsed since the conviction ; and

(b) if no such order is made, until either four years have elapsed since the commission of the offence or such an order is made;

but if the offence was one under section 1 or 2 of this Act the endorsement remains in any case effective until four years have elapsed since the conviction, and if it was one under section 5(1) or 6(1)(a) of this Act or was one under section 8(7) of this Act involving obligatory disqualification, the endorsement remains effective until eleven years have elapsed since the conviction.”.