{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-instruction-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-instruction-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2010/227",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Instruction) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-instruction-regulations-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Driving and riding ability and fitness tests",
  "text": "(1) The driving ability and fitness test and the riding ability and fitness test shall each consist of tests of eyesight and either tests of driving or of riding technique for the relevant vehicle category and the candidate shall be required to reach the qualifying standard in both the tests of eyesight and of driving or riding technique on the same occasion.\n(2) The test of eyesight shall be a test of the candidate’s ability to read in good daylight (with the aid of glasses or contact lenses if worn), a motor vehicle registration mark containing letters and figures—\n(a) 79 millimetres in height and 50 millimetres wide at a distance of 26.5 metres; or\n(b) 79 millimetres in height and 57 millimetres wide at a distance of 27.5 metres.\n(3) The tests of driving or riding technique described in Parts I and II of Schedule 2 shall, so far as possible, be conducted both on urban roads and on roads of different classes outside built-up areas and a candidate must satisfy the examiner that he has an adequate knowledge of the principles of good driving and road safety or good riding and road safety as the case may be and that he can apply them in practice.\n(4) The candidate shall, during the driving ability and fitness test, allow to travel in the vehicle—\n(a) the person authorised to conduct the test; and\n(b) any person authorised by the Department for the purpose of supervising the test.\n(5) The candidate shall, during the riding ability and fitness test, allow to accompany and by means of radio listen to the instruction any person or persons authorised by the Department for the purpose of supervising the test or otherwise.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 8-9 substituted (29.11.2010) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Instruction) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/367), regs. 1, 2(7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/227/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:26:26.422398+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."
}