The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1997

4.—(1) Regulation 6 shall be amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (6) there shall be substituted—

“(6) A person may drive an incomplete large vehicle—

(a) having a working weight exceeding 3.5 tonnes but not exceeding 7.5 tonnes if he holds a relevant full licence authorising the driving of vehicles in sub-category C1, or

(b) having a working weight exceeding 7.5 tonnes if he holds a relevant full licence authorising the driving of vehicles in category C, other than vehicles in sub-category C1,

unless by that licence he is authorised to drive only motor vehicles having automatic transmission, in which case he shall be deemed competent to drive only incomplete large vehicles of the appropriate weight specified in paragraph (a) or (b) which have automatic transmission.”.

(3) In paragraph (9)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (c), the word “and” shall be omitted, and

(b) after that sub-paragraph, there shall be inserted—

“(cc) if he is aged 70 or over, is not suffering from a relevant disability in respect of which the licensing authority would be bound to refuse to grant him a Group 2 licence (within the meaning of regulation 65), and”.