2.—(1) The Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In section 37 (effect of order of disqualification)(2), after subsection (3) add—
“(4) Notwithstanding anything in Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1988, a person who holds a Community licence which authorises that person to drive motor vehicles of a particular class, but who is disqualified by an order of a court under section 36 of this Act, is (unless the person is also disqualified otherwise than by virtue of such an order) entitled to drive a motor vehicle of that class in accordance with the same conditions as if the person were authorised to drive a motor vehicle of that class by a provisional licence.”.
Section 37 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c.53) was amended by sections 33 and 48 and Schedule 4, paragraph 96, of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40). It has been further amended by Schedule 21, paragraph 90, to the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c.25), but those amendments have not yet been brought into force.