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Road Traffic Act 1930
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9Restriction on driving by young persons.
(1)A person under sixteen years of age shall not drive a motor vehicle on a road unless on first applying for a licence after the commencement of this Act he satisfies the licensing authority that he was during the six months immediately preceding the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty, in the habit of driving a motor vehicle.
(2)A person under seventeen years of age shall not drive a motor vehicle other than a motor cycle or an invalid carriage on a road.
(3)A person under twenty-one years of age shall not drive a heavy locomotive, light locomotive, motor tractor or heavy motor car on a road unless on first applying for a licence after the commencement of this Act he satisfies the licensing authority that he was during the six months immediately preceding the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty, in the habit of driving a motor vehicle of that class :
Provided that a vehicle being an agricultural tractor shall not be deemed to be driven on a road within the meaning of this subsection while it is being so driven in the course of the internal operations of a farm.
(4)Any person who drives, or causes or permits any person to drive, a motor vehicle in contravention of this section, shall be guilty of an offence.
(5)A person prohibited by this section by reason of his age from driving a motor vehicle or a motor vehicle of any class, shall, for the purposes of this Part of this Act, be deemed to be disqualified under the provisions of this Part of this Act for holding or obtaining any licence other than a licence to drive such motor vehicles, if any, as he is not by this section forbidden to drive.
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