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

Passing the test

22.  After regulation 46 (entitlement upon passing an appropriate driving test), under the heading “Test Results”, insert—

“Results of safe road use test and validity of certificates

46A.— (1) The person conducting a safe road use test shall arrange for the test to be marked on the day it was undertaken and shall upon completion of the marking of the test furnish the person who undertook it with notification of the result of that test.

(2) A qualification award certificate or a relevant qualification certificate shall be valid for the purposes of regulation 38(3)(a)(iia) for a period commencing on the date of the certificate and ending—

(a) three years later,

(b) on the date on which the person to whom the certificate is issued is disqualified by order of a court under section 34(1) or 35(2)of the Offenders Act,

(c) on the date on which that person is disqualified by order of a court under section 36(3) of the Offenders Act until that person passes an appropriate driving test, or

(d) on the date on which that person’s driving licence is revoked under section 3 of the New Drivers Act 1995(4),

whichever is the earliest.”.

(1)

Section 34 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40), section 29(1) to (4); by the Aggravated Vehicle Taking Act 1992 (c.11), section 3(2); by the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (c.6), Schedule 9, paragraph 121; by the Police Reform Act 2002 (c.30), section 56(3) and Schedule 8; by the Road Safety Act 2006 (c.49), section 25(2); by the Serious Crime Act 2007 (c.27), section 63(1) and Schedule 6, Part 1, paragraph 15(b); by the Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform)(Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6), the Schedule, paragraph 7(d) and by S.I. 2007/3480, article 2(1)(b).

(2)

Section 35 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40), Schedule 4, paragraph 95; by the Serious Crime Act 2007 (c.27), section 63(1) and Schedule 6, part 1, paragraph 15(c); by the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (c.6), Schedule 9, paragraph 22 and by the Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6), the Schedule, paragraph 7(d).

(3)

Section 36 was amended by the Road Safety Act 2006 (c.49), section 9(6) and Schedule 2, paragraphs 2 and 7 and by S.I. 1996/1974 and 1998/1917.

(4)

1995 c.13; section 3 was amended by the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003, section 91(1) and Schedule 5, paragraphs 45 and 47 and by the Road Safety Act 2006, section 5(1) and Schedule 1, paragraphs 24 and 26(1) to (5).