{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendments to Schedule 7 (specified requirements for practical or unitary test)",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 7 of the principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In Part 1 and Part 2, for paragraph A there shall be substituted –\n“A. Eyesight\n1. Read in good daylight (with the aid of corrective lenses if worn) a registration mark fixed to a motor vehicle –\n(a) in the case of a registration mark containing letters and figures 79 millimetres high and 57 millimetres wide, at a distance of 20.5 metres; and\n(b) in the case of a registration mark containing letters and figures 79 millimetres high and 50 millimetres wide, at a distance of 20 metres.”.\n(3) For paragraph 1 of Part 5 there shall be substituted the following paragraph –\n“1. Read in good daylight (with the aid of corrective 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) in the case of a unitary test conducted in respect of a vehicle included in category K, 12.3 metres;\n(ii) in any other case, 20.5 metres.\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) in the case of a unitary test conducted in respect of a vehicle included in category K, 12 metres;\n(ii) in any other case, 20 metres.”.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}