{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-instruction-trainee-licence-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-instruction-trainee-licence-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-7.json",
  "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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Conditions subject to which trainee licences are granted",
  "text": "(1) A trainee licence shall be granted subject to such of the conditions specified in paragraphs (2) to (4) as apply to it.\n(2) A trainee licence shall be subject to the following conditions, namely that the trainee licence holder must—\n(a) for one-fifth of the total time he spends giving instruction in the driving of a motor car, receive direct supervision from an approved driving instructor present with him in the car;\n(b) maintain, for each working day while the licence is in force, a record in the form specified in Schedule 1 of the time he spends giving such instruction;\n(c) sign the record at the end of every working day and, if he has received supervision from an approved driving instructor on any day, ensure that the instructor also signs the record for that day;\n(d) produce on request, for examination by a person authorised by the Registrar in that behalf, all the records maintained under sub-paragraph (b) during the period ending on the day before the date of the request and further, if required to do so, deliver those records to such a person for retention by him; ...\n(e) not later than seven days after the expiry of the trainee licence, deliver to a person authorised by the Registrar in that behalf all the records maintained under sub-paragraph (b) during the period when the trainee licence was in force, other than such records as have been delivered under sub-paragraph (d) and not returned to him.\n(f) at all times when acting in accordance with these Regulations, wear the trainee licence or display the trainee licence in the motor car in such position and manner as to be plainly and distinctly visible; and\n(g) not later that fourteen days after the expiry of the trainee licence, deliver said trainee licence to the person authorised by the Registrar in that behalf.\n(3) The holder may give instruction in the driving of a motor car—\n(a) only on behalf of the approved driving instructor identified in the trainee licence; and\n(b) where the driving ability and fitness test has been passed in a motor car with an automatic transmission, instruction can only be given in motor cars fitted with automatic transmission.\n(4) Every trainee licence is subject to the condition that, in the event of the trainee licence holder arranging to have the supervision referred to above, or any part thereof, undertaken by a different approved driving instructor from the person named in his application, he must submit to the Registrar full details of any consequential changes to the particulars submitted under regulation 4(1)(h) resulting from the new arrangement together with the consent (in any form permitted under regulation 4(1)(h) of the new approved driving instructor to that arrangement.\n(5) In this regulation—\n“working day” means any day during which the licence holder gives paid instruction in the driving of a motor car.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 7(2)(d) omitted (28.2.2015) by virtue of The Motor Vehicles (Driving Instruction) (Trainee Licence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/4), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 7(2)(f)(g) added (28.2.2015) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Instruction) (Trainee Licence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/4), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 7(3) substituted (28.2.2015) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Instruction) (Trainee Licence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/4), regs. 1, 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in operation at 2.8.2010, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/228/regulation/7",
    "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."
}