{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1996/schedule-3/part-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1996/schedule-3/part-2.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": "schedule/3/part/2",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "INTERPRETATION",
  "text": "In Part 1 of this Schedule—\n“first licence” means a licence (other than a licence falling in paragraph 2 of the Table in Part 1) granted to a person—\n(a) who has not held a licence before,\n(b) whose last licence was a full licence which expired before 31st December 1978, or\n(c) whose last provisional licence was granted before 1st October 1982;\n“short Group 2 licence” means a licence which, when granted upon the expiry of a period of disqualification, must (by virtue of the expiry date of the licence which was revoked upon disqualification) expire not later than 3 months after the date it is granted;\nand “Group 1 licence” and “Group 2 licence” have the meanings respectively given in regulation 65.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1229",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2824/schedule/3/part/2",
    "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."
}