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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/236",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-2001",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make a further amendment to the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999.\nRegulation 3(3) adds a new paragraph (6) to regulation 43 of the 1999 Regulations, whereby persons who pass a test of competence to drive vehicles in category A (motor bicycles) will no longer have full entitlement also to drive vehicles in sub-category B1 (3 or 4 wheeled motor vehicles having an unladen weight not exceeding 550 kilograms), unless they passed the test before 1st February 2001. Regulations 2 and 3(2) substitute new amendments to regulation 43(3) in place of those made by the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2001.\nThese Regulations remedy an omission from the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 which make other amendments to the 1999 Regulations and come into force on 1st February 2001. These Regulations are accordingly being issued free to all known recipients of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2001.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/236/note",
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  "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."
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