{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-46",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/669",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After regulation 71 there shall be inserted—\n“Saving in respect of entitlement to Category N\n71A (1) Where on 31st December 1996 a person was, by virtue of regulations then in force, the holder of, or entitled to apply for the grant of, a licence authorising the driving of vehicles included in—\n(a) the former category N (vehicles used for very short distances on public roads) alone, or\n(b) category F or A and the former category N,\nthe licensing authority may, notwithstanding anything contained in these Regulations, grant to such a person a licence authorising the driving of vehicles in the former category N (with or without vehicles in either or both of the other categories as the case may be).\n(2) Any licence granted in pursuance of paragraph (1) shall be a Group 1 licence within the meaning of regulation 65.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/669/regulation/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:37.785001+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."
}