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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-instruction-trainee-licence-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2010/228",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Instruction) (Trainee Licence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-instruction-trainee-licence-regulations-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations\n“approved driving instructor” means a person whose name is entered in the register established under Article 51 of the Order of 2007;\n“community licence” means a document issued in respect of a member State other than the United Kingdom by an authority of that or another member State (including the United Kingdom) authorising the holder to drive a motor vehicle, not being—\n(a) a document containing a statement to the effect that that or a previous document was issued in exchange for a document issued in respect of a State other than a member State, or\n(b) a document in any of the forms for an international driving permit annexed to the Paris Convention on Motor Traffic of 1926, the Geneva Convention on Road Traffic of 1949 or the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic of 1968;\n“current licence” means a licence of one of the following kinds—\n(i) a current licence to drive a motor car granted under Article 13(1) of the Order of 1981;\n(ii) a current licence to drive a motor car granted under the corresponding law in force in Great Britain; or\n(iii) a Community licence by which the holder is authorised to drive a motor car in Northern Ireland,\nand that, during the period of six years ending with the day on which the application is made, one or more of the following requirements have been satisfied in relation to him for the periods amounting in the aggregate to at least four years—\n(aa) he has held a current licence of one of the kinds aforesaid,\n(bb) after having passed the test of competence prescribed under Article 5(1) of the Order of 1981 or, as the case may be, the law for the time being in force in Great Britain corresponding to that Article, to drive a motor vehicle, he has held a current provisional licence to drive a motor vehicle,\n(cc) he has held a current foreign licence, that is to say, a document issued under the law of a country or territory other than an EEA state (within the meaning of the Order of 1981) authorising the holder to drive a motor vehicle in that country;\n“Department” means the Department of the Environment;\n“driving ability and fitness test” means the practical test of ability and fitness to drive referred to in the definition of “examination” and the nature of which is prescribed in the Motor Vehicles (Driving Instruction) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010;\n“examination” means the examination of ability to give instruction in the driving of motor cars and for the purpose of these Regulations shall consist of the test of driving theory and hazard perception, the driving ability and fitness test and the instructional ability and fitness test;\n“examiner”, in relation to part of the examination or the continued ability and fitness test, means an officer of the Department appointed to conduct that part of the examination or that test;\n“instructional ability and fitness test” means the practical test of ability and fitness to give instruction in the driving of motor cars referred to in the definition of “examination” and the nature of which is prescribed in regulation 9;\n“the Order of 1981” means the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981;\n“the Order of 1996” means the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;\n“the Order of 2007” means the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007;\n“the register” means the register of approved driving instructors established under Article 132 (1) of the Order of 1981;\n“the Registrar” means the officer of the Department by whom the register is, on behalf of the Department, compiled and maintained;\n“theory test” means the test of driving theory and hazard perception referred to in the definition of “examination” the nature of which is prescribed in the Motor Vehicles (Driving Instruction) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010; and\n“trainee licence” means a licence to give instruction in the driving of a motor car granted by the Department under Article 135(1) of the Order of 1981.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 2.8.2010, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2010 No. 227"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996 No. 1320 (N.I. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I 2007/916 (N.I. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/228/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:26:25.464374+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."
}