The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999, Section 12 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 01 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
12.—(1) An applicant for a large goods or passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence shall not, subject to paragraph (2), be granted a licence if, at the date from which the licence applied for is to take effect, any—
(a)large goods or passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence held by him is suspended, or
(b)Northern Ireland large goods or passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence held by him is suspended,
under section 115 of the Traffic Act or, as the case may be, under the provision of the law for the time being in force in Northern Ireland corresponding to that enactment.
(2) A person may apply for a large goods vehicle driver’s licence notwithstanding that, at the date from which the licence applied for is to take effect, any passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence held by him is suspended and such suspension relates to his conduct other than as a driver of a motor vehicle.
F1(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) An applicant for a large goods vehicle driver’s licence [F2which would be in force for a period during the whole or part of which the applicant would be] under the age of 21 must not be a person who has—
(a)been convicted (or is, by virtue of section [F358A] of the Offenders Act F4, to be treated as if he had been convicted) of an offence as a result of which [F5at least four penalty points fall] to be taken into account under section 29 of the Offenders Act F6, or
(b)at any time been disqualified by a court for holding or obtaining a licence or by a court in Northern Ireland for holding or obtaining a Northern Ireland licence.
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 12(3) omitted (22.12.2018) by virtue of The Driving Licences (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1251), regs. 1(3), 6(4)(a)
F2Words in reg. 12(4) substituted (22.12.2018) by The Driving Licences (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1251), regs. 1(3), 6(4)(b)
F3Word in reg. 12(4)(a) substituted (8.6.2015) by The Road Safety Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/583), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 11(a)
F4Section 58(1) was amended by the 1990 Regulations.
F5Words in reg. 12(4)(a) substituted (1.4.2003) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/636), regs. 1(a), 3(2)
F6Section 29 was substituted by section 28 of the 1991 Act.
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