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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-large-goods-and-passenger-carrying-vehicles-amendment-regulations-1992/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-large-goods-and-passenger-carrying-vehicles-amendment-regulations-1992/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/166",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-large-goods-and-passenger-carrying-vehicles-amendment-regulations-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend regulation 6 of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Large Goods and Passenger-Carrying Vehicles) Regulations 1990 so that a person who has abnormal sight in one or both eyes and who does not fall within sub-paragraph (i) of regulation 6(1)(b) has a relevant disability for the purposes of the Road Traffic Act 1988 if—\n(a) in the case of a person who, on the coming into force of these Regulations, holds a licence entitling him to drive large goods or passenger-carrying vehicles—\n(i) the visual acuity in his better eye is worse than 6/9, and\n(ii) the visual acuity in his poorer eye is worse than 6/12, and\n(iii) in the case of a person who wears glasses or contact lenses, the uncorrected acuity in each of his eyes is worse than 3/60;\n(b) in any other case—\n(i) the visual acuity in his better eye is worse than 6/9, or\n(ii) the visual acuity in his poorer eye is worse than 6/12, or\n(iii) in the case of a person who has to wear glasses or contact lenses to ensure that the visual acuity in his better eye is no worse than 6/9 and/or that the visual acuity in his poorer eye is no worse than 6/12, the uncorrected acuity in each of his eyes is no worse than 3/60.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/166/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:30:20.776278+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."
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