# The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997, Regulation 20


(1) Regulation 33 (Vehicles suitable for test) shall be amended as follows.
(2) For paragraph (1) there shall be substituted—
“(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the prescribed practical or unitary test for a licence authorising the driving of vehicles included in a category shown in column (1) of the Table at the end of this regulation must be conducted in a vehicle having a specification equivalent to or (except in the case of a test prescribed in respect of category F, G, H, K or P) higher than that shown in relation to that category in column (2) of the Table.
(1A) Subject to paragraph (2), the prescribed practical test for a licence authorising the driving of vehicles included in a sub-category shown in column (1) of the Table at the end of this regulation must be conducted in a vehicle having a specification equivalent to or higher than that shown in relation to that sub-category in column (2) of the Table.”.
(3) In paragraph (2)—
(a) for the words from the beginning of the paragraph to “that the applicant” there shall be substituted “Where an applicant for a practical test prescribed in respect of category A declares that he”,
(b) at the end of sub-paragraph (a), the word “and” shall be omitted, and
(c) for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted—
“(b) in the case of a test for a licence authorising the driving of a standard motor bicycle and side-car combination (other than a combination included in sub-category A1), a combination which has a power to weight ratio not exceeding 0.16 kw/kg., and
(c) in the case of a test for a licence authorising the driving of a motor bicycle and side-car combination included in sub-category A1, a combination consisting of a minimum test vehicle for that sub-category and a side-car where the combination has a power to weight ratio not exceeding 0.16 kw/kg.”.
(3) In paragraph (3)(d), after “D” there shall be inserted “or D+E”.
(4) In the Table at the end, in column (1) after “B1”, the words “in the case of any other test” shall be omitted.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/669/regulation/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-20
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