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The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) Regulations 2007

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Driver Qualification Card

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8.—(1) Where a person has passed the initial CPC test organised under regulation 5(1), or has completed 35 hours of periodic training entitling him to a periodic CPC and provided by a person approved under regulation 6(3)(a), he shall apply to the competent authority for a driver qualification card.

(2) That person shall send to the competent authority —

(a)the fee specified in paragraph (5), and

(b)if the competent authority so requests, a photograph of that person in such form as it may require.

(3) Upon receipt of the items specified in paragraph (2), the competent authority shall issue that person with a driver qualification card if it is satisfied that the person has passed the initial CPC test or completed the periodic training entitling him to a periodic CPC, as the case may be.

(4) In respect of persons who make an application under this regulation, the driver qualification card issued under paragraph (3) shall be the CPC for the purposes of Article 6(1)(b) (CPC awarded on the basis of tests) or Article 8(1) (CPC certifying periodic training) of the Directive, as the case may be.

(5) The fee shall be £25.

(6) If a driver qualification card has been damaged, lost or stolen, the competent authority must send that person a replacement card upon payment to it of the fee specified in paragraph (5).

(7) The competent authority may waive the fee in paragraph (5) in whole or in part if it thinks fit.

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