{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment to regulation 51 (disabilities prescribed in respect of Group 2 licences)",
  "text": "In regulation 51 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 2 licence, the inability to read in good light (with the aid of corrective lenses if necessary) a registration mark fixed to a motor vehicle –\n(a) at a distance of 20.5 metres, in the case of a registration mark containing letters and figures 79 millimetres high and 57 millimetres wide; and\n(b) at a distance of 20 metres, in the case of a registration mark containing letters and figures 79 millimetres high and 50 millimetres wide.”.",
  "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/5",
    "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."
}