{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2024/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2024/213",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2024",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland)",
  "text": "After regulation 55ZA (modification of regulation 55: Appendix Ukraine Scheme) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996, insert—\n“Modification of regulation 55 and further enactments relating to licences in respect of certain licences issued in EEA States\n55ZB. (1) This regulation applies in respect of a person who is the holder of a relevant permit within the meaning given by regulation 55(3)(i), and where conditions A and B are satisfied.\n(2) Condition A is that the relevant permit was issued —\n(a) in an EEA State, and\n(b) in exchange for a licence or a licence issued in Great Britain.\n(3) Condition B is that the licence or a Great Britain licence, as the case may be, referred to in paragraph (2)—\n(a) was issued on or after 1stJanuary 2021, and\n(b) was not issued—\n(i) as a renewal or replacement of, or in exchange for, another licence, or Great Britain licence, issued before 1st January 2021, or\n(ii) in exchange for a relevant permit within the meaning given by regulation 55(3) issued in relation to a country outside the United Kingdom.\n(4) Where this regulation applies, regulation 55 (persons who become resident in Northern Ireland) has effect subject to the modifications in paragraph (5).\n(5) Regulation 55 is to read as if—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) the reference to the period of one year after a person becomes resident in Northern Ireland were a reference to the period for which that person is authorised to drive by that relevant permit after they become resident, and\n(ii) the reference to all classes of small vehicle, motor bicycle or moped were a reference to a motor vehicle, and\n(b) paragraphs (2) and (2A) were omitted.\n(6) Where this regulation applies, references in any enactment relating to licences to a Community licence, or the holder of a Community licence, have effect as if they also included a reference to the relevant permit described in paragraph (1), or the holder of such a relevant permit, as the case may be.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 13.1.2025, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 542; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1997 No. 383, S.R. 2015 No. 357 and S.R. 2024 No. 22"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2024/213/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:27:16.956982+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."
}