The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990

Effect of the change in classification on the granting of licences to drive minibuses

29.  A person who has taken the test prescribed by these Regulations for vehicles in category D (which includes vehicles with not more than 16 seats, in addition to the driver’s seat, used for hire or reward) in a vehicle in that category of which the overall length—

(a)in the case of a test taken before 1st April 1994 is less than 8.5 metres and

(b)in the case of a test taken on or after that date is less than 9 metres,

shall be granted a licence limited to the driving of vehicles in that category with not more than 16 seats, in addition to the driver’s seat.