Regulation 25 Revocation of authority to conduct tests
England, Wales and Scotland
The Secretary of State may revoke—
an appointment made under regulation 23(1)(a) or (2)(a) or under regulation 24(1)(a) F1, (1ZA) or (2)(a), or
by notice in writing and the authority of the person whose appointment is revoked or whose approval is withdrawn to conduct theory tests F5or large vehicle off road manoeuvres tests or, as the case may be, to appoint other persons to conduct F6unitary tests, manoeuvres tests, F7large vehicle off road manoeuvres tests, practical tests or theory tests, shall cease upon the date specified in the notice.
Where a person has his appointment revoked or if an approval given in respect of him under regulation F823(1)(de)(ii), (1)(df)(ii), (3), 24(1)(ce)(ii), (1)(cf)(ii) F9, F10(1ZA) or (3) is withdrawn, that person shall immediately return to the Secretary of State all forms of pass certificates supplied to him under regulations 47(8) and 48(3) which he still holds.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Word in reg. 25(1)(a) inserted (15.11.2021 at 1.00 a.m.) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1154), regs. 1(2), 6(a)(i)
- F2
Words in reg. 25(1)(b) inserted (1.11.2021) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1128), regs. 1(2), 7(a)(i)
- F3
Words in reg. 25(1)(b) inserted (1.11.2021) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1128), regs. 1(2), 7(a)(ii)
- F4
Words in reg. 25(1)(b) inserted (15.11.2021 at 1.00 a.m.) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1154), regs. 1(2), 6(a)(ii)
- F5
Words in reg. 25(1) inserted (15.11.2021 at 1.00 a.m.) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1154), regs. 1(2), 6(a)(iii)
- F6
Words in reg. 25(1) substituted (30.3.2009) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/788), regs. 1(2), 8 (with reg. 33)
- F7
Words in reg. 25(1) inserted (15.11.2021 at 1.00 a.m.) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1154), regs. 1(2), 6(a)(iv)
- F8
Words in reg. 25(2) substituted (1.11.2021) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1128), regs. 1(2), 7(b)
- F9
Words in reg. 25(2) inserted (15.11.2021 at 1.00 a.m.) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1154), regs. 1(2), 6(b)
- F10
Word in reg. 25(2) substituted (8.4.2025) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/356), regs. 1(2), 4
Notes on the whole SI
Textual amendments
- F1
1988 c. 52. Relevant amendments are referred to where appropriate below. Amending statutes and instruments are referred to in the footnotes to these Regulations in the following manner: “the 1989 Act" means the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22); “the 1990 Regulations" means the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/144), “the 1991 Act" means the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), “the 1996 Regulations" means the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974) and “the 1998 Regulations" means the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1420).
- F2
Subsection (6) was amended by the 1990 Regulations.
- F3
Subsection (1A) was inserted by the 1996 Regulations, subsections (2A) and (5A) were inserted by the 1989 Act, section 6; subsection (3) was amended by the 1991 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 63; subsection (4) was amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 8 and by the 1996 Regulations; subsection (7) was amended and subsections (9) and (10) were substituted by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 8 and subsections (7), (9) and (10) were amended by the 1996 Regulations. Subsection (4)(b) is to be read with the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/643), as amended by S.I. 1991/811, 1993/1601, 1995/1684 and 1996/1929, the relevant entries being items 5, 5A and 6 in Schedule 1, Table III.
- F4
Section 89A was inserted by the 1989 Act, section 4(4).
- F5
Subsection (2) was amended by the 1996 Regulations.
- F6
Subsections (4) and (5) were amended by the 1989 Act, section 5(7) and (8).
- F7
Subsections (1) and (3) were amended by the 1989 Act, section 6(2) and Schedule 6 and by the 1996 and 1998 Regulations, subsection (1A) was inserted by the 1998 Regulations; subsections (3A) and (3B) were inserted by the 1989 Act, section 6(2) and subsection (3A) was amended by the 1996 and 1998 Regulations; subsection (4) was amended by the 1996 and 1998 Regulations; subsection (4) was amended by the 1998 Regulations.
- F8
Subsections (2) and (4) were amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 11. Subsection (2) was amended by the 1990 Regulations.
- F9
Subsection (1) was amended by Schedule 3, paragraph 12, of the 1989 Act; subsection (1A) was inserted by section 2(2) of that Act.
- F10
Section 99A was inserted by the 1996 Regulations; subsection (4) was amended by the 1998 Regulations.
- F11
Subsection (2) was amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 14 and by the 1990, 1996 and 1998 Regulations; subsection (4) was amended by the 1996 Regulations.
- F12
See the definitions of “prescribed" and “regulations".
- F13
Sections 114, 115, 116 and 117 to 122 (Part IV of the Act) were substituted by the 1989 Act, section 2(1) and Schedule 2, Section 114(1) was amended by the 1996 Regulations.
- F14
Subsection (3) was amended by the 1991 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 64 and the 1996 Regulations.
- F15
Section 115A was inserted by the 1996 Regulations.
- F16
Subsection (2A) was inserted by the 1991 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 65.
- F17
See the definition of “prescribed".
- F18
Amended by the 1990 Regulations.
- F19
Amended by the 1991 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 68.
- F20
Inserted by the 1989 Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 23.
- F21
See the definition of “prescribed".
- F22
See section 105(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.