{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1987/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1987/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Duration of provisional licences",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), for the purposes of subsection (1A) of section 89 of the 1972 Act there is hereby prescribed—\n(a) a motor cycle of a class falling within group D;\n(b) a period of two years; and\n(c) in relation to a licence granted to the holder of a previous licence which was surrendered, revoked or treated as being revoked, the circumstances—\n(i) that the licence would come into force within the period of one year beginning on the date the previous licence was surrendered, revoked, or treated as being revoked; and\n(ii) that the licence when granted would be for a period of one month or more.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of a licence granted in pursuance of section 89(1) (aa) or (4) of the 1972 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/485",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licenses) (Amendment) Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1378/regulation/8",
    "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."
}