{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1996/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Classes for which licences may be granted",
  "text": "(1) A licence authorising the driving of motor vehicles of a class included in a category or sub-category mentioned in Part 1 of Schedule 2 may be granted to a person who is entitled thereto by virtue of—\n(a) holding or having held a full licence, a full Northern Ireland licence, full British external licence, full British Forces licence, exchangeable licence or Community licence authorising the driving of vehicles of that class, or\n(b) having passed a test authorising the driving of motor vehicles of that class or a Northern Ireland or Gibraltar test corresponding to such a test.\n(2) A licence authorising the driving of motor vehicles of a class included in any category or sub-category mentioned in Part 2 of Schedule 2 may not be granted to a person unless, at a time before 1st January 1997—\n(a) in the case of an application for a full licence—\n(i) he held a full licence authorising the driving of vehicles of a class included in that category, or\n(ii) he passed a test which at the time it was passed authorised the driving of motor vehicles of that class or a Northern Ireland test corresponding to such a test;\n(b) in the case of an application for a provisional licence, he held a provisional licence authorising the driving of vehicles of a class included in 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/5",
    "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."
}