The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

21.  In regulation 38 (further requirements at tests)—

(a) for paragraph (4) substitute—

“(4) Subject to paragraph (4A), a person submitting to a manoeuvres test or a practical test must, before the test commences, produce to the person conducting the test—

(a) in the case of a test on a motor vehicle of a class included in any category other than category A, a valid standard theory test pass or a valid large vehicle theory test pass certificate showing that the person submitting to the test has passed the theory test prescribed in respect of the same category or a valid certificate corresponding to such a certificate furnished under the law of Northern Ireland; or

(b) in the case of a test on a motor vehicle of a class included in category A, a valid standard theory test pass certificate showing that the person submitting to the test has passed the theory test prescribed in respect of category A or category AM or a valid certificate corresponding to either such certificate furnished under the law of Northern Ireland.”;

(b) after paragraph (4) insert—

“(4A) Paragraph (4) does not apply in a case where—

(a) a person submitting to a manoeuvres test or a practical test is exempt from the requirement to pass a theory test by virtue of regulation 42; or

(b) by virtue of regulation 40(4) no theory test is prescribed for the class of vehicle on which a manoeuvres test or a practical test (as the case may be) is to be taken”;

(c) in paragraphs (8) and (8A) for “A or P” substitute “AM or A”; and

(d) in paragraph (9)(a) and (b) for the words from “category A” to “driver’s seat” substitute “category AM, A, G, H or K”.