{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-4-regulations-1997/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-4-regulations-1997/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2070",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-4-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After regulation 26 there shall be inserted—\n“Eligibility to apply for further practical or unitary test\n26A (1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a person who has failed to pass a practical or unitary test (“the first test”) for a licence authorising the driving of vehicles of a class included in any category may not make an application for another test for a licence authorising the driving of vehicles of any class included in the same category to be conducted before the expiry of the relevant period.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply—\n(a) in a case where the person is either a member of the armed forces of the Crown or a person in the civil service of the Crown under the Secretary of State for Defence and the application is made with the consent of a person authorised by the Secretary of State for Defence; or\n(b) in a case where the first test is conducted by a DSA Examiner and the licensing authority has, prior to that test, given notice to the person that he will accept an application for a further test to be conducted before the expiry of the relevant period.\n(3) In this regulation, “the relevant period” means—\n(a) in the case of a test for a licence authorising the driving of a vehicle of a class included in category C, C+E, D or D+E, 3 clear working days, and\n(b) in any other case, 10 clear working days,\ncommencing with the first day after the date of the first test.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2070/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:57:47.296423+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."
}