{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/driving-licences-exchangeable-licences-order-2004/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/driving-licences-exchangeable-licences-order-2004/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/301",
  "legislation_title": "The Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/driving-licences-exchangeable-licences-order-2004",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Designation of the Falkland Islands",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3) below, the Falkland Islands is designated under section 108(2)(b) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 as respects licences of the description specified in paragraph (2) below.\n(2) The licences referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) licences which authorise the driving of a class of vehicles corresponding to a class of vehicles included in licensing category AM, B, B+E, F, K or Q or licensing sub-category A1, A2 or A3, and\n(b) which have been granted by the licensing authority of the Falkland Islands—\n(i) to a person who has passed a driving test in the Falkland Islands, or\n(ii) by way of exchange for a licence granted in an EEA State , in the United Kingdom, or in a country or territory named in the Schedule to a person who had passed a driving test in such a State, country or territory.\n(3) A licence of a description specified in paragraph (2) above shall be exchangeable only in so far as it authorises the driving of vehicles with automatic transmission if it was granted to a person who passed a driving test, whether in the Falkland Islands or in a State, country or territory mentioned in paragraph 2(b)(ii) above, in a vehicle with automatic transmission notwithstanding that the licence authorises the driving in the Falkland Islands of vehicles with manual transmission.\n(4) A licence—\n(a) of a description specified in paragraph (2)(b)(ii) above,\n(b) granted by way of exchange for a licence granted to a person who had passed a driving test in the Republic of Korea,\nshall not be exchangeable in so far as it authorises the driving of a class of vehicles included in licensing category A, notwithstanding that the licence authorises the driving in the Falkland Islands of a class of vehicles corresponding to that licensing category.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(2)(a) substituted (19.1.2013) by The Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) (Amendment) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/22), arts. 1(2), 4(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(2)(b)(ii) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Driving Licences (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1251), regs. 1(2), 8; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/301/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:34:10.372759+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."
}