The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008

Periodic training courses: further requirements

8.  In regulation 6 (persons providing periodic training courses)—

(a) for paragraph (5) substitute—

“(5) Where it appears to the competent authority that—

(a) any conditions of an approval given under paragraph (3)(a) are not being complied with; or

(b) an approval under paragraph (3)(a) or (b) or (9) was given in error,

the competent authority may send notice to the person to whom the approval was given that it is minded to withdraw or suspend its approval.”,

(b) for paragraph (10) substitute—

“(10) A person to whom these Regulations apply may take a periodic training course approved under this regulation if that person is—

(a) a national of a member State and normally resident in the United Kingdom;

(b) a national of a member State and works in the United Kingdom, or

(c) a national of a third country and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.”, and

(c) at the end add—

“(11) The provisions of regulation 5A(1), (3) and (4) (further requirements at tests: initial CPC test) shall apply in respect of a periodic training course and for that purpose a reference in those provisions to a test shall be read as a reference to a periodic training course.”.