{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-2010/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-2010/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/1203",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Nature of tests",
  "text": "In regulation 40B (content of the tests)—\n(a) before paragraph (1) insert—\n“(ZA1) The safe road use test shall—\n(a) be conducted as an approved form of examination and test a candidate’s knowledge of the matters in Schedule 7 Part 2, other than the excepted matters;\n(b) have a duration of 30 minutes or, in the circumstances specified in paragraph (6), 60 minutes.”;\n(b) in paragraph (1) in sub-paragraph (a), for “candidate on” substitute “candidate’s knowledge and understanding of”;\n(c) after paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) The abridged standard test of driving theory shall—\n(a) be conducted as an approved form of examination with the questions testing a candidate’s knowledge and understanding of the matters specified in Part 2 of Schedule 7; and\n(b) have a duration of 40 minutes or, in the circumstances specified in paragraph (6), 80 minutes.”; and\n(d) in paragraph (6), for “paragraphs (1) and (2)” substitute “paragraphs (ZA1), (1), (1A) and (2)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1203/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:43:05.777684+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."
}