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Amendment of the Road Traffic Act 1988

6.—(1) Section 97 (grant of licences)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) After subsection (1) insert—

(1A) Where any licence to be granted to an applicant would be in the form of a photocard, the Secretary of State may under subsection (1)(a) and (b) above in particular require him to provide a photograph which is a current likeness of him..

(3) In subsection (3)(e) (provisional licence conditions), after “motor bicycle”, in each place where the words occur, insert “or moped”.

(4) In subsection (3A) (training in the riding of motor cycles), after “motor bicycles”, in each place where the words occur, insert “and mopeds”.

(5) In subsection (4) (training regulations), after “motor bicycle”, in each place where the words occur, insert “or moped”.

(1)

The relevant amendments are by section 6 of the 1989 Act and the 1996 Regulations.