Explanatory note

These Regulations amend regulation 24(2)(a) and (b) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987.

Paragraph (2) of regulation 24 sets out the conditions which an applicant for a driving licence, who suffers from epilepsy, must satisfy if he is to be granted a licence.

Sub-paragraph (a) is amended so that the two year period, during which no epileptic attacks shall have been suffered, runs from the date when the licence is granted rather than the date when it is to have effect as previously.

The applicant who has suffered an epileptic attack or attacks only whilst asleep during that period and who cannot by that reason satisfy sub-paragraph (a) must now show a pattern of asleep attacks if he is to satisfy sub-paragraph (b). The condition to be satisfied in that provision as substituted is that he must have had another asleep attack more than three years before the date the licence is granted and have had no awake attack or attacks since that attack.