Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Amendment to regulation 51 (disabilities prescribed in respect of Group 2 licences)

5.  In regulation 51 of the principal Regulations, for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted –

(1) There is prescribed for the purposes of Article 9(2) of the Order as a relevant disability in relation to an applicant for, or a person who holds, a Group 2 licence, the inability to read in good light (with the aid of corrective lenses if necessary) a registration mark fixed to a motor vehicle –

(a)at a distance of 20.5 metres, in the case of a registration mark containing letters and figures 79 millimetres high and 57 millimetres wide; and

(b)at a distance of 20 metres, in the case of a registration mark containing letters and figures 79 millimetres high and 50 millimetres wide..