{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/358",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Meaning of “qualified driver”",
  "text": "For regulation 11 of the principal Regulations (provisional licences: interpretation) there shall be substituted—\n“Meaning of “qualified driver”\n11 (1) Subject to paragraph (3), a person is a qualified driver for the purposes of regulation 12 if he—\n(a) is 21 years of age or over;\n(b) holds a relevant licence;\n(c) has the relevant driving experience; and\n(d) in the case of a disabled driver, he is supervising a provisional licence holder who is driving a vehicle of a class included in category B and would in an emergency be able to take control of the steering and braking functions of the vehicle in which he is a passenger.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) “disabled driver” means a person who holds a relevant licence which is limited by virtue of a notice served under Article 9(5)(b) of the Order to vehicles of a particular class;\n(b) “full licence” includes a full Great Britain licence and a Community licence;\n(c) “relevant licence” means—\n(i) in the case of a disabled driver, a full licence authorising the driving of a class of vehicles in category B other than vehicles in sub-category B1 or B1 (invalid carriages), and\n(ii) in any other case, a full licence authorising the driving of vehicles of the same class as the vehicle being driven by the provisional licence holder; and\n(d) a person has relevant driving experience if—\n(i) in the case of a person supervising a provisional licence holder who is driving a vehicle in category C, D, C + E or D + E, he held the relevant licence on 1st November 1998 and has held it continuously since that date and he has also held a full licence authorising the driving of vehicles in category B for a continuous period of not less than 3 years or for periods amounting in aggregate to not less than 3 years, and\n(ii) in any other case, he has held the relevant licence for a continuous period of not less than 3 years or for periods amounting in aggregate to not less than 3 years.\n(3) In the case of a person who is a member of the armed forces of the Crown acting in the course of his duties for naval, military or air force purposes sub-paragraphs (a) and (c) of paragraph (1) shall not apply.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 1.11.1999, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/358/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:18:19.965856+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."
}