The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Substitution of regulation 6B (review and appeal of decisions in relation to Northern Ireland)

9.  For regulation 6B substitute—

“Review and appeal of decisions in relation to Northern Ireland

6B.— (1) A person who is aggrieved by a decision of the competent authority in relation to Northern Ireland—

(a) not to approve a person to provide training courses under regulation 6(6)(a);

(b) not to approve a training course which a person wishes to provide under regulation 6(6)(b);

(c) to withdraw or suspend an approval under regulation 6(11);

(d) not to approve a training course under regulation 6(13),

may by notice in writing to that competent authority apply for a review of the decision within 28 days beginning with the date on which notice of the decision was sent.

(2) Following a review under paragraph (1) the competent authority may grant, refuse, withdraw, suspend or continue an approval, as the case may be, as it thinks fit.

(3) The competent authority must, within 56 days beginning with the day on which the application for review was made, give notice in writing of the review decision to the aggrieved person setting out the particulars of the reasons for its decision.

(4) A person who is aggrieved by a review decision may appeal to a court of summary jurisdiction.

(5) In this regulation, “training course” means a periodic training course, a national periodic training course or a national return to driving course.”.