{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-8",
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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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Regulation 7 (Minimum ages for holding or obtaining licences) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (2)(a) there shall be substituted—\n“(a) a case where a person has passed a test for a licence authorising the driving of a motor vehicle of a class included in category A, other than sub-category A1, and the standard access period (as defined in regulation 20) has elapsed, and”.\n(3) For paragraph (4) there shall be substituted—\n“(4) In item 5 (small vehicles), the age of 16 is substituted for the age of 17 in the case of a small vehicle driven without a trailer attached where the driver of the vehicle is a person in respect of whom an award of the higher rate component of the disability living allowance made in pursuance of section 73 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (whether before or after his 16th birthday) is still in force.”.\n(4) In paragraph (6), at the end, there shall be inserted—\n“and which is owned or operated by—\n(a) a health service body (as defined in section 60(7) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990), or\n(b) a National Health Service Trust established under Part I of that Act or under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.”\n(5) For paragraph (8) there shall be substituted—\n“(8) In item 7, the age of 18 is substituted for the age of 21 in the case of a person who is registered as an employee of a registered employer in accordance with the Training Scheme, where he is driving a vehicle which is—\n(a) of a class to which his training agreement applies, and\n(b) owned or operated by his employer or by a registered LGV driver training establishment.”.\n(5) For paragraph (11)(b) there shall be substituted—\n“(b) for the purposes of paragraph (8), “registered”, “training agreement” and “the Training Scheme” have the meanings respectively given in regulation 51;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/669/regulation/8",
    "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."
}