{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-2025-ukdsi-2025-9780348269161/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348269161",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-2025-ukdsi-2025-9780348269161",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999",
  "text": "(1) The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 7 (competence to drive classes of vehicle: special cases)—\n(a) for paragraph (11) substitute—\n“(11) A person who holds a relevant full licence authorising the driving of vehicles included in category B, other than vehicles in former sub-category B1, sub-category B1 or sub-category B1 (invalid carriages), may drive—\n(a) a zero-emission vehicle which has a maximum authorised mass—\n(i) not exceeding 4.25 tonnes, excluding any part of that weight which is attributable to specialised equipment intended for the carriage of disabled passengers, and\n(ii) not exceeding 5 tonnes otherwise;\n(b) a zero-emission vehicle and trailer combination which has a maximum authorised mass not exceeding 7 tonnes, comprising—\n(i) a zero-emission vehicle referred to in sub-paragraph (a), and\n(ii) a trailer which has a maximum authorised mass not exceeding 3.5 tonnes.”;\n(b) for paragraph (12) substitute—\n“(12) For the purposes of this regulation, “zero-emission vehicle” means a vehicle without an internal combustion engine, or with an internal combustion engine that emits less than 1g CO2/kWh.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2864, amended by S.I. 2018/784; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348269161/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:29.912635+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}