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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-5-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2915",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-5-regulations-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”) by providing—\n(a) that a person wishing to drive an incomplete large vehicle over 3.5 tonnes in weight must hold a licence which would authorise him to drive a goods vehicle of an equivalent weight;\n(b) that a person holding a licence to drive vehicles in category B only and wishing to drive a vehicle in sub-category D1 under the derogation in regulation 6(9) of the 1996 Regulations must comply with the medical standards applicable to sub-category D1 when he reaches the age of 70; and\n(c) for the extension, until 1st January 1999, of the exemption under which a person wishing to drive a mobile crane may do so on the authority of a category B licence and need not comply with other provisions relating to large goods vehicles.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2915/note",
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  },
  "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."
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