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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-large-goods-and-passenger-carrying-vehicles-amendment-no-4-regulations-1991/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2492",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-large-goods-and-passenger-carrying-vehicles-amendment-no-4-regulations-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990 by substituting a new Schedule 3 for the existing one. The principal changes introduced by the new Schedule 3 are as follows:\nthe fee for a full large goods vehicle (lgv) driver’s licence, except one granted in exchange for a provisional licence or following a period of disqualification, is increased from £10 to £21;\nthe fee for a full passenger-carrying vehicle (pcv) driver’s licence, except one granted in exchange for a provisional licence or following a period of disqualification, is reduced from £22.50 to £21;\nthe fee for a provisional lgv or pcv driver’s licence is increased from £5 to £21, except where the licence is granted to a person after he has been ordered to take a driving test under section 117 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 “the 1988 Act”, in which case the fee is increased from £5 to £12;\nthe fee for a full lgv or pcv driver’s licence granted following the expiration of a period of disqualification for holding or obtaining such a licence is increased from £5 to £12, except where the licence is granted to a person after he has passed a driving test which he was ordered to take under section 117 of the 1988 Act, in which case the fee is increased from £5 to £6; and\nthe fee for a full lgv trainee driver’s licence for category C and for an lgv trainee driver’s provisional licence for category C plus E granted to the holder of a heavy goods vehicle (hgv) trainee driver’s full licence to drive hgvs of class 2 or 3 is increased from £5 to £6.\nIt should be noted that no fee is charged when a person exchanges a provisional for a full lgv or pcv driver’s licence except where the person has just passed a test which he was ordered to take under section 117 of the 1988 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2492/note",
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  "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."
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