{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-community-licences-regulations-2011/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-community-licences-regulations-2011/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2633",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Community Licences) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-community-licences-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Issue of a UK licence for the Community and driver attestation",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 12(1) (supply of information), a person is entitled to be issued by the competent authority with a UK licence for the Community if the person holds a standard operator’s licence that authorises international transport operations.\n(2) On and after exit day a Community licence issued by a competent authority referred to in regulation 5 is treated as a UK licence for the Community.\n(3) Subject to regulation 12(1) (supply of information), the holder of a UK licence for the Community is entitled to be issued with a driver attestation if the holder complies with the requirements of Article 5(1A) of Regulation 1072/2009.\n(4) On and after exit day any driver attestation issued by the Secretary of State under the provisions of Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international road haulage market is treated as a driver attestation for the purposes of Article 5(1A) of Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/708), regs. 1(1), 5(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 6(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/708), regs. 1(1), 5(5)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 6(3)(4) substituted for reg. 6(3) (31.12.2020) by The Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/708), regs. 1(1), 5(5)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/708), regs. 1(1), 5(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 4.12.2011, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 3(5) of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operator’s) Act 1995 (c.23)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2633/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:51:28.129482+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."
}