The Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) Order 2016

Designation of Switzerland: licensing category C, C+E, D or D+E E+W+S

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), Switzerland is designated under section 108(2)(b) of the Act as respects licences of the description specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The licences referred to in paragraph (1) are licences which—

(a) authorise the driving of a class of vehicle corresponding to a class included in one or more relevant licensing categories, whether or not they authorise the driving of any other class of vehicle, and

(b) have been granted by the licensing authority of Switzerland—

(i) to a person who has passed a driving test in Switzerland in respect of each class of vehicle authorised by that person's licence corresponding to a class included in one or more relevant licensing categories, or

(ii) in exchange for a licence granted in—

(aa) Great Britain to a person who had passed a driving test in Great Britain in respect of each relevant licensing category authorised by that licence, or

(bb) Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, an EEA state F1 ... or a country or territory named in the Schedule to a person who had passed a driving test in Northern Ireland, Gibraltar or such state, country or territory, as the case may be, in respect of each class of vehicle authorised by that licence corresponding to a class included in one or more relevant licensing categories.

(3) A licence of the description specified in paragraph (2), which authorises its holder to drive a class of vehicle corresponding to a class included in one or more relevant licensing categories but limited to vehicles with automatic transmission, is only an exchangeable licence in so far as it authorises the holder to drive only vehicles of that class which have automatic transmission.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in art. 3(2)(b)(ii)(bb) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Driving Licences (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1251), regs. 1(2), 11; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)