Motor Cars (Driving Instruction) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Conditions subject to which licences are granted

21.—(1) A licence shall be granted subject to such of the conditions specified in paragraphs (2) to (4) as apply to it.

(2) A licence which is not a substitute licence shall be subject to the following conditions, namely that the licence holder must –

(a) for one-fifth of the total time he spends giving instruction in the driving of a motor car, receive direct supervision from an approved driving instructor present with him in the car;

(b) maintain, for each working day while the licence is in force, a record in the form specified in Schedule 2 of the time he spends giving such instruction;

(c) sign the record at the end of every working day and, if he has received supervision from an approved driving instructor on any day, ensure that the instructor also signs the record for that day;

(d) produce on request, for examination by a person authorised by the Registrar in that behalf, all the records maintained under sub-paragraph (b) during the period ending on the day before the date of the request and further, if required to do so, deliver those records to such a person for retention by him; and

(e) not later than 7 days after the expiry of the licence, deliver to a person authorised by the Registrar in that behalf all the records maintained under sub-paragraph (b) during the period when the licence was in force, other than such records as have been delivered under sub-paragraph (d) and not returned to him.

(3) The holder may give instruction in the driving of a motor car only on behalf of the approved driving instructor identified in the licence.

(4) Every licence is subject to the condition that, in the event of the licence holder arranging to have the supervision referred to above, or any part thereof, undertaken by a different approved driving instructor from the person named in his application, he must submit to the Registrar full details of any consequential changes to the particulars submitted under regulation 17(h) resulting from the new arrangement together with the consent (in any form permitted under regulation 17(h)) of the new approved driving instructor to that arrangement.

(5) In this regulation –

“substitute licence” means a licence granted pursuant to an application made in accordance with regulation 19(2) so as to come into effect immediately upon the expiry of the previous licence; and

“working day” means any day during which the licence holder gives paid instruction in the driving of a motor car.