Article 3 Designation of Faroe Islands
England, Wales and Scotland
Subject to paragraph (3), the Faroe Islands is designated under section 108(2)(b) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 as respects licences of the description specified in paragraph (2).
The licences referred to in paragraph (1) are licences which—
authorise the driving of a class of vehicles corresponding to a class of vehicles included in licensing category F1AM, B, B+E, F, K, or Q, and
have been granted by the licensing authority of the Faroe Islands—
to a person who has passed a driving test in the Faroe Islands, or
by way of exchange for a licence granted in the United Kingdom or an EEA State F2... 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.
Notwithstanding that a licence of a description specified in paragraph (2) authorises the driving of vehicles with manual transmission, that licence shall be exchangeable only to the extent that it authorises the driving of vehicles with automatic transmission if it was granted to a person who passed a driving test in a vehicle with automatic transmission.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in art. 3 substituted (19.1.2013) by The Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) (Amendment) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/22), arts. 1(2), 4(4)(b)
- F2
Words in art. 3(2)(b)(ii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Driving Licences (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1251), regs. 1(2), 9; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)