{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1999/regulation-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1999/regulation-61.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/61",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Persons authorised as assistant instructors",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a person authorised or deemed to be authorised as an assistant instructor by virtue of regulations in force on 30th January 1998 shall be entitled to conduct, on behalf of an approved training body, the instruction of riders of motor bicycles in all elements other than element (E) of the prescribed training course.\n(2) No person authorised or deemed to be authorised as an assistant instructor may conduct instruction if at any time he ceases to hold a full licence authorising the driving of vehicles in category A (other than a licence authorising the driving only of A1 motorcycles) or if the Secretary of State, being satisfied that he is not a fit and proper person to conduct instruction, withdraws approval of his authorisation to act as an assistant instructor.\n(3) No person shall be entitled to conduct training otherwise than as a certified instructor or certified direct access instructor after 30th January 2002.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 61(2) substituted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 35"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2864/regulation/61",
    "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."
}