http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/605/regulation/15The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) Regulations 2007texttext/xmlenStatute Law DatabaseROAD TRAFFIC2024-06-19Expert Participation2020-12-31 These Regulations implement Council Directive 2003/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 July 2003 on the initial qualification and periodic training of drivers of certain road vehicles for the carriage of goods or passengers. In brief, the Directive requires such drivers to take an initial practical and theoretical driving test, valid for five years and 35 hours of periodic training every five years. Amendment of the Driving Licences Regulations151Regulation 9 of the Driving Licences Regulations (minimum ages for holding or obtaining licences) is amended as follows.2Omit paragraph (5).3For paragraphs (7) and (8) substitute—7In item 7, the age of 18 is substituted for the age of 21 in relation to a motor vehicle of a class included in category C or C+E where the person driving the vehicle —ahas an initial qualification authorising him to drive motor vehicles of that class,bis using the vehicle as described in regulation 3(2)(e) of the Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) Regulations 2007,cis authorised by such document as is referred to in regulation 4(5)(d) of those Regulations to drive motor vehicles of that class, ordby reason of being a person in relation to whom regulation 4(7) of those Regulations applies, is not required to have an initial qualification as described in sub–paragraph (a).4For paragraph (9) substitute—9In item 7, the age of 18 is substituted for the age of 21 in relation to a motor vehicle of a class included in category D or D+E, other than sub-category D1 or D1+E, where the person driving the vehicle —ahas an initial qualification authorising him to drive motor vehicles of that class and is either —iengaged in the carriage of passengers on a regular service over a route which does not exceed 50 kilometres, oriinot engaged in the carriage of passengers,bis using the vehicle as described in regulation 3(2)(e) of the Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) Regulations 2007,cis authorised by such document as is referred to in regulation 4(5)(d) of those Regulations to drive motor vehicles of that class, ordby reason of being a person in relation to whom regulation 4(7) of those Regulations applies, is not required to have an initial qualification relating to motor vehicles of that class.9AIn item 7, the age of 18 is substituted for the age of 21 in relation to a motor vehicle of a class included in sub-category D1 or D1+E where the person driving the vehicle —ahas an initial qualification authorising him to drive motor vehicles of that class,bis using the vehicle as described in regulation 3(2)(e) of the Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) Regulations 2007,cis authorised by such document as is referred to in regulation 4(5)(d) of those Regulations to drive motor vehicles of that class, ordby reason of being a person to whom regulation 4(7) of those Regulations applies, is not required to have an initial qualification relating to motor vehicles of that class.9BIn item 7, the age of 20 is substituted for the age of 21 in relation to a motor vehicle of a class include in category D or D+E, other than sub-category D1 or D1+E, where the person driving the vehicle —ahas an initial qualification authorising him to drive motor vehicles of that class, andbis engaged in the carriage of passengers otherwise than on such a service as is described in paragraph (9)(a)(i).5Omit paragraph 13(b) and (c) and insert after sub–paragraph (c)—din paragraphs (7), (9), (9A) and (9B), “initial qualification” means such initial qualification as is provided for in Article 3(1)(a) of Council Directive 2003/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the initial qualification and periodic training of drivers of certain road vehicles for the carriage of goods or passengers;ein paragraphs (9) and (9B), expressions which are also used in that Directive have the same meanings as in that Directive.
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