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15C.—(1) If the Department is at any time satisfied on inquiry—
(a)that a Community licence holder who is normally resident in Northern Ireland at the time is suffering from a relevant disability, and
(b)that the Department would be required by virtue of Article 9(3) to refuse an application made by him at that time for a licence authorising him to drive a vehicle of the class in respect of which his Community licence was issued or a class corresponding to that class,
the Department may serve notice in writing requiring the Community licence holder to deliver the Community licence and its counterpart (if any) immediately to the Department.
(2) If the Department is at any time satisfied on inquiry that a Community licence holder who is normally resident in Northern Ireland at that time is suffering from a prospective disability, the Department may—
(a)serve notice in writing requiring the Community licence holder to deliver the Community licence and its counterpart (if any) immediately to the Department, and
(b)on receipt of the Community licence and its counterpart (if any) grant to the Community licence holder, free of charge, a licence for a period determined by the Department under Article 15(1)(c).
(3) Where, in relation to a Community licence holder who is normally resident in Northern Ireland, the Department is at any time under a duty to serve notice on him in pursuance of Article 9(5), the Department may include in that notice a requirement that the Community licence holder deliver the Community licence and its counterpart (if any) immediately to the Department.
(4) A person who—
(a)is required under any of paragraphs (1) to (3) to deliver his Community licence and its counterpart (if any) to the Department, but
(b)without reasonable excuse, fails to do so,
is guilty of an offence.
(5) Where a Community licence holder to whom a counterpart of his Community licence is issued under Article 15B—
(a)is required under any of paragraphs (1) to (3) to deliver his Community licence and its counterpart (if any) to the Department, and
(b)is not in possession of them in consequence of the fact that he has surrendered them to a constable on receiving a fixed penalty notice given to him under Article 199,
he does not fail to comply with any such requirement if he delivers the Community licence and its counterpart to the Department immediately on their return.
(6) Where a Community licence holder is served with a notice in pursuance of any paragraphs (1) to (3), he shall cease to be authorised by virtue of Article 15A(1) to drive in Northern Ireland a motor vehicle of any class from such date as may be specified in the notice, not being earlier than the date of service of the notice.
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