{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1996/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Classification of vehicles",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 5, the licensing authority shall grant licences authorising the driving of motor vehicles in accordance with the categories and sub-categories specified in column (1) and defined in column (2) of Schedule 2 and those categories and sub-categories are designated as groups for the purposes of section 89(1)(b) of the Traffic Act.\n(2) In these Regulations, expressions relating to vehicle categories have the following meanings—\n(a) any reference to a category or sub-category identified by letter, number or word or by a combination thereof is a reference to the category or sub-category defined in column (2) of Schedule 2 opposite that letter or combination in column (1) of the Schedule,\n(b) “sub-category” means, in relation to category A, B, C, C + E, D or D + E, a class of vehicles comprising part of the category and identified as a sub-category thereof in column (2) of Schedule 2, and\n(c) unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a category includes a reference to sub-categories of that category.",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}