{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/64",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment to regulation 50 (disabilities prescribed in respect of Group 1 licences)",
  "text": "In regulation 50 of the principal Regulations, for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted –\n“(1) There is prescribed for the purposes of Article 9(2) of the Order as a relevant disability in relation to an applicant for, or a person who holds, a Group 1 licence, the inability to read in good light (with the aid of glasses or contact lenses if worn) a registration mark fixed to a motor vehicle in accordance with paragraphs (a) and (b) –\n(a) Where the registration mark contains letters and figures 79 millimetres high and 57 millimetres wide, the test shall be conducted at a distance of –\n(i) 12.3 metres, in the case of an application for a licence authorising only the driving of motor vehicles of a class included in category K;\n(ii) 20.5 metres, in any other case.\n(b) Where the registration mark contains letters and figures 79 millimetres high and 50 millimetres wide, the tests shall be conducted at a distance of –\n(i) 12 metres, in the case of an application for a licence authorising only the driving of motor vehicles of a class included in category K;\n(ii) 20 metres, in any other case.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/64/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:04:43.782113+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."
}