{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/driving-licences-exchangeable-licences-order-2007/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/driving-licences-exchangeable-licences-order-2007/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/95",
  "legislation_title": "The Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/driving-licences-exchangeable-licences-order-2007",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Designation of Faroe Islands",
  "text": "(1) 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).\n(2) The licences referred to in paragraph (1) are licences which—\n(a) 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, and\n(b) have been granted by the licensing authority of the Faroe Islands—\n(i) to a person who has passed a driving test in the Faroe Islands, or\n(ii) by way of exchange for a licence granted in the United Kingdom or an EEA State ... 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) 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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/95/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:07:10.191057+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."
}