The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

Effect of change in classification of vehicles for licensing purposes E+W+S

76.—(1) In a licence (whether full or provisional) granted before 1st January 1997, a reference to motor vehicles in an [F1 older] category shall be construed as a reference to motor vehicles in the new category corresponding thereto and a reference to motor vehicles of a class included in an [F1 older] category shall be construed as a reference to vehicles of the corresponding class included in the new category.

(2) Where a licence granted before 1st January 1997 authorises only the driving of a class of motor vehicles included in an [F1 older] category having automatic transmission, it shall authorise the driving of the corresponding class of vehicles in the new category having automatic transmission.

[F2 (2A) Subject to paragraphs (3C) to (3E), in a licence (whether full or provisional) granted before 19th January 2013, a reference to motor vehicles in an old category shall be construed as a reference to motor vehicles in the new category corresponding thereto and a reference to motor vehicles of a class included in an old category shall be construed as a reference to vehicles of the corresponding class included in the new category.]

(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), a reference in a licence to motor vehicles in an [F3 older] category (or a class included in that category) includes a reference in a licence granted before 1st June 1990 to a group or class of motor vehicles which is, by virtue of any enactment, to be construed as a reference to vehicles in the [F3 older] category (or a class included in that category).

[F4 (3C) Where a licence (whether full or provisional) granted before 19th January 2013 authorises the driving of—

(a) standard motor bicycles only, or

(b) standard motor bicycles and side-car combinations only,

any reference in that licence to motor vehicles in category A (save for those in sub-category A1) shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (3D).

(3D) A reference in a licence of the type referred to in paragraph (3C) granted before 19th January 2013 to motor vehicles in category A shall be construed as a reference—

(a) where the standard access period has not expired, to motor vehicles in sub-category A2; and

(b) where that period has expired, to motor vehicles in category A.

(3E) Paragraph (2A) shall not apply to a reference to vehicles in sub-category D1 in a licence granted before 1st January 1997.

(3F) Where a licence granted before 19th January 2013 authorises only the driving of a class of motor vehicles included in an old category having automatic transmission, it shall not under this regulation authorise the driving of any vehicle not having automatic transmission.]

(4) In this regulation—

• “old category" and “class included in an old category" mean respectively a category and a class of vehicles specified in [F5 column (2)] of the table at the end of this regulation,

• [F6 “older category” and “class included in an older category”, mean respectively a category and a class of vehicles specified in column (1) of the table at the end of this regulation,]

• [F7 “new category” and “class included in a new category”—

  (a)

  in relation to an old category, means respectively the category (or, as the case may be, the sub-category) and the class of vehicles specified in column (3) of the table as corresponding to the relevant old category or class included in that old category; and

     

  (b)

  in relation to an older category, means respectively the category (or, as the case may be, the sub-category) and the class of vehicles specified in column (3) of the table as corresponding to the relevant older category or class included in that older category,]

• “section 19 permit" means a permit granted under section 19 of the 1985 Act.

  TABLE

  [F8 (1) Older category or class	(2) Old category or class	(3) Corresponding new category or class
  	A (excluding A1)	A
  	A1	A1
  	B1	Motor tricycles in categories AM and A and light quadricycles in category AM
  B1, limited to invalid carriages		B1 (invalid carriages)
  	B	B
  B plus E		B + E
  	B+E	B + E
  	C1	C1
  C1 plus E		C1 + E (8.25 tonnes)
  	C	C
  C plus E		C+E
  C plus E, limited to drawbar trailer combinations only		Vehicles in category C+E which are drawbar trailer combinations
  D1		D1 (not for hire or reward)
  	D1	D1
  D1 plus E		D1 + E (not for hire or reward)
  	D1 + E	D1 + E
  D, limited to 16 seats		D1
  D, limited to vehicles not more than 5.5 metres in length		D1 and vehicles in category D not more than 5.5 metres in length
  D, limited to vehicles not driven for hire or reward		Vehicles in category D which are either driven while being used in accordance with a section 19 permit or, if not being so used, driven otherwise than for hire or reward
  	D	D
  D plus E		D + E
  	F	F
  	G	G
  	H	H
  	K	K
  	L	L
  	P	Q and AM]

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in reg. 76(1)(2) substituted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(a)

F2 Reg. 76(2A) inserted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(b)

F3 Word in reg. 76(3) substituted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(c)

F4 Reg. 76(3C)-(3F) inserted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(d)

F5 Words in reg. 76(4) substituted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(e)(i)

F6 Words in reg. 76(4) inserted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(e)(ii)

F7 Words in reg. 76(4) substituted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(e)(iii)

F8 Reg. 76(4) Table substituted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(f)