{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-2012/schedule-3/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/977",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 7 (competence to drive classes of vehicle: special cases)—\n(a) in paragraph (4) for “sub-categories B1 and” substitute “former sub-category B1 or sub-category”;\n(b) in paragraphs (5)(a), (6)(a) and (7) for “sub-categories B1 or” substitute “former sub-category B1 or sub-category”; and\n(c) after paragraph (7) insert—\n“(8) A person who holds a licence authorising the driving of vehicles included in category B and who has, before 1st February 2001, passed a test (or a Northern Ireland test of competence corresponding to such a test) for such a licence may drive a category P vehicle unless the test or, as the case may be, the practical test was passed on a motor vehicle which was adapted on account of a disability of the person taking the test in which case the person is authorised to drive only such category P vehicles as are so adapted.\n(9) Where a person holds a full licence issued before 19th January 2013 authorising the driving of vehicles included in category A, that licence shall not in addition authorise the driving of vehicles in former sub-category B1 unless that person passed the test in respect of that licence (or a Northern Ireland test of competence corresponding to that test) before 1st February 2001.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/977/schedule/3/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:35:04.407602+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."
}