Road Safety Act 2006

Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52)

8 For section 126 (duration of registration) substitute—

“126 Duration of registration

(1) Unless previously terminated under the following provisions of this Part of this Act, a person’s registration in respect of any description of driving instruction shall (subject to subsection (3) below) be terminated at the end of the period of four years beginning with the day specified in subsection (2) below.

(2) That day is—

(a) the first day of the month next after that in which the person became registered in respect of that description of driving instruction, or

(b) where his registration in respect of that description of driving instruction has been extended under section 127 of this Act, the day on which the last further period for which the registration was last extended began.

(3) If an application for the extension of a person’s registration in respect of any description of driving instruction is made under section 127 of this Act, the registration is not terminated under subsection (1) above.

(4) Where a person whose registration in respect of any description of driving instruction has been terminated under subsection (1) above applies under section 125 of this Act to be registered again in respect of that description of driving instruction, he shall be required again to fulfil such of the conditions prescribed under section 125ZA(1) of this Act as may be prescribed.

(5) But if the person was a registered disabled instructor he shall instead be required again to fulfil such of the conditions prescribed under section 125A(5) of this Act as may be prescribed.”