{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1999/regulation-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1999/regulation-34.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2864",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Eligibility to reapply for manoeuvres tests, large vehicle off road manoeuvres tests, practical tests or unitary tests",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a person who has failed to pass a manoeuvres test, large vehicle off road manoeuvres test, practical test or unitary test (“the first test\") for a licence authorising the driving of vehicles of a class included in any category may not make an application for another test for a licence authorising the driving of vehicles of any class included in the same category to be conducted before the expiry of the relevant period.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply—\n(a) in a case where the person is either a member of the armed forces of the Crown or a person in the civil service of the Crown under the Secretary of State for Defence and the application is made with the consent of a person authorised by the Secretary of State for Defence; or\n(b) in a case where the first test is conducted by a DVSA examiner and the Secretary of State has, prior to that test, given notice to the person that he will accept an application for a further test to be conducted before the expiry of the relevant period.\n(3) In this regulation, “the relevant period\" means—\n(za) in the case of a manoeuvres test, 3 clear working days,\n(zb) in the case where the first test is a large vehicle off road manoeuvres test conducted by a large vehicle off road manoeuvres test examiner, 1 clear calendar day,\n(a) subject to sub-paragraph (zb), in the case of a test for a licence authorising the driving of a vehicle of a class included in category B+E, C, C+E, D or D+E, 3 clear working days, and\n(b) in any other case, 10 clear working days.\ncommencing with the first day after the date of the first test.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 34(1) substituted (30.3.2009) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/788), regs. 1(2), 12(b) (with reg. 33)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 34(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), 10(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 34(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Driving Standards Agency and the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Merger) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/480), regs. 1, 6(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 34(3)(za) inserted (30.3.2009) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/788), regs. 1(2), 12(c) (with reg. 33)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 34(3)(zb) 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), 10(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 34(3)(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), 10(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in reg. 34(3)(a) inserted (2.4.2007) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/698), regs. 1(1), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 34 heading substituted (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), 10(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2864/regulation/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:23.500437+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."
}