8. For the purposes of section 89A of the 1988 Act, a class of heavy goods vehicle or public service vehicle or a test of competence to drive heavy goods vehicles or public service vehicles of a class specified in column (1) of Part I or Part II, as the case may be, of the table in Schedule 2 corresponds to a category of large goods vehicle or passenger-carrying vehicle or a test of competence to drive a category of large goods vehicle or passenger-carrying vehicle, as the case may be, specified in column (2) of Part I or Part II of that table, and in respect of an existing heavy goods vehicle licence for vehicles in class 3 or 3A which is restricted to vehicles having a permissible maximum weight not exceeding 10 tonnes by virtue of—
(a)paragraph 3(3) and (5) of Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic (Drivers' Ages and Hours of Work) Act 1976(1); or
(b)paragraph (1) or (2) of regulation 31 of the Heavy Goods Vehicles (Drivers' Licences) Regulations 1977(2) before they ceased to have effect with the repeal of Part IV of the 1988 Act by section 1 of the 1989 Act,
without any such restriction.
S.I. 1977/1309; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.