{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/minibus-and-other-section-19-permit-buses-regulations-1987/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/minibus-and-other-section-19-permit-buses-regulations-1987/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1230",
  "legislation_title": "The Minibus and Other Section 19 Permit Buses Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/minibus-and-other-section-19-permit-buses-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Conditions to be fulfilled by driver",
  "text": "(1) The driver of a vehicle used under a permit shall, if not the holder of a public service vehicle driver’s licence to drive vehicles of that class, fulfil the following conditions:\n(a) he shall be the holder of a current driving licence under Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1972 which authorises him to drive a vehicle adapted to carry more than eight passengers and which satisfies the requirements of paragraph (2) of this regulation, or he shall be entitled by virtue of section 84(4) of the said Act of 1972 to drive such vehicles; and\n(b) he shall be 21 years of age or over.\n(2) The driving licence referred to in paragraph (1)(a) of this regulation shall not be a provisional licence, or a licence which merely has effect under section 88(4) of the said Act of 1972 as a provisional licence authorising him to drive such vehicles.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 84(4) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1974 (c. 50), Schedule 3, paragraph 1; the Road Traffic (Drivers' Ages and Hours of Work) Act 1976 (c. 3), Schedule 1, paragraph 1; the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/1555), regulation 3(1); and the Road Traffic (Driving Licences) Act 1983 (c. 43), section 1(3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 88(4) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1974, Schedule 2, paragraph 4(3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/3088",
      "affecting_title": "The Minibus and Other Section 19 Permit Buses (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "replaced (by reg.3(2)(b)(tc)) UccJ))",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2916",
      "affecting_title": "The Minibus and Other Section 19 Permit Buses (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1230/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:23:46.259278+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."
}