{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1987/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1987/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1378",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Persons by whom tests may be conducted",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) tests may be conducted—\n(a) by examiners appointed by the licensing authority;\n(b) by the Secretary of State for Defence, in so far as concerns the testing of persons in the service of the Crown under his department;\n(c) in England and Wales, by the chief officer of any fire brigade maintained in pursuance of the Fire Services Act 1947 or, in Scotland, by the firemaster of such a brigade, in so far as concerns the testing of members of any such brigade or of persons employed in the driving of motor vehicles for the purposes of any such brigade;\n(d) by any chief officer of police in so far as concerns the testing:—\n(i) of members of a police force; or\n(ii) of persons employed in the driving of motor vehicles for police purposes by a police authority or by the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District;\n(e) by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis in so far as concerns the testing of any person who is the holder of or is an applicant for a licence to drive a motor cab by virtue of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869; and\n(f) by any person appointed for the purpose by the licensing authority under the provisions of regulation 15.\n(2) Part I of the test for motor bicycles may be conducted by any persons appointed to conduct tests in pursuance of sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) or (f) of paragraph (1) and also by any person or body of persons appointed by the licensing authority under regulation 16.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1947 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1869 c. 115."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/485",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licenses) (Amendment) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/1318",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "replaced (by regs.14-17, 18,18A,19,19A-19E,20, 20A-20E,21.21A,218,22, 22A (Pt.III))",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1259",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2334",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1378/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:22:24.129660+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."
}