PART II LICENCES
Applications for licences
Restrictions on the grant of large goods and passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licences12
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.
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4
An applicant for a large goods vehicle driver’s licence F6which 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
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.