{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1996/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1996/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2824",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Full licences not carrying provisional entitlement",
  "text": "(1) Section 98(2) of the Traffic Act shall not apply to a licence—\n(a) which authorises the driving only of motor vehicles adapted on account of a disability, whether pursuant to an application in that behalf made by the holder of the licence or pursuant to a notice served under section 92(5)(b) of the Traffic Act;\n(b) in so far as it authorises its holder to drive vehicles of a class included in category B + E, C + E, D + E, K or P or sub-category B1 (invalid carriages), C1, C1 + E, C1 + E (8.25 tonnes), D1 (not for hire or reward), D1 + E or D1 + E (not for hire or reward).\n(2) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, the holder of a full licence authorising him to drive motor vehicles of a class included in a category or sub-category specified in column (1) of the table at the end of this regulation may drive—\n(a) in a case where the full licence authorises only the driving of vehicles with automatic transmission, motor vehicles of all classes included in that category or sub-category which have manual transmission, and\n(b) motor vehicles of all classes included in a category or sub-category specified, in relation to that category or sub-category, in column (2) of the table,\nas if he were authorised by a provisional licence to do so and the application of section 98(2) of the Traffic Act to those classes of vehicle is limited accordingly.\n(3) In the case of a licence which authorises the driving only of—\n(a) motor bicycles of a class included in sub-category A1, or\n(b) standard motor bicycles,\nsection 98(2) shall not apply so as to authorise the driving of a large motor bicycle by a person under the age of 21.\n(4) In the case of a provisional large goods vehicle driver’s licence, this regulation shall apply as modified by regulation 51.\nTABLE\nFull licence held\nProvisional entitlement included\nA1\nA, B, F, and K\nA\nB and F\nB1\nA, B and F\nB\nA, B + E, G and H\nC\nC1 + E, C + E\nD1\nD1 + E\nD\nD1 + E, D + E\nF\nB and P\nG\nH\nH\nG",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2824/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:36.843299+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."
}