Amendments to the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999

5.  In regulation 19 (full licences and provisional entitlement)—

(a)in paragraph (2), before “as if he were authorised”, insert “save where he is the holder of a full licence which authorises the driving of motor vehicles of a class included in that category or sub-category,”;

(b)in the table—

(i)for “C1 + E” in the entry in column (2) (provisional entitlement included) that corresponds to the sub-category C1 in column (1) (full licence held), substitute “None”,

(ii)insert the following rows after the row in the table that relates to category C—

C1 + EC, C + E
C + ENone,

(iii)for “D1 + E” in the entry in column (2) (provisional entitlement included) corresponding to the sub-category D1 in column (1) (full licence held), substitute “C1, C1 + E, C, C + E, D1 + E, D and D + E”,

(iv)for “D1 + E, D + E” in the entry in column (2) (provisional entitlement included) corresponding to the category D in column (1) (full licence held), substitute “C1, C1 + E, C, C + E, D1 + E and D + E”, and

(v)insert the following rows after the row in the table that relates to category D—

D1 + EC1, C1 + E, C, C + E, D and D + E
D + EC1, C1 + E, C, C + E.