The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

Applications for tests

11.  After regulation 25A (as inserted by these Regulations), under the heading “applications for tests” insert—

“Applications for safe road use tests

25B.— (1) Subject to paragraph (4), a relevant awarding authority which is approved under regulation 22A(2) but which is not an appointed person may apply to an appointed person for an appointment for a safe road use test in respect of a person seeking to attain a relevant qualification (“the candidate”).

(2) An application made under paragraph (1) shall specify the date, time and location of the appointment sought and provide the name and such further details relating to—

(i) the candidate who is to attend the appointment to take the test, and

(ii) whether the candidate has special needs,

as the appointed person may reasonably require.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), upon receipt of such details the appointed person shall confirm to the relevant awarding authority the date and time of the appointment.

(4) The appointed person may refuse to accept an application from a relevant awarding authority (or, where two or more applications have been made on the same occasion, to accept all or any of those applications) where any appointment specified in the application is unavailable or where, in the opinion of the appointed person, it is reasonably necessary to do so in the general interests of applicants for safe road use tests.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), no application may be made for an appointment on behalf of a person who has failed to pass a safe road use test if less than three working days, commencing with the day after the first test, would expire before the day on which the subsequent test would take place.

(6) Paragraph (5) shall not apply in a case where the appointed person has given notice, prior to the first test, that an appointment for a subsequent test would be accepted without the interval referred to in that paragraph having expired.”.