{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-1999/regulation-76",
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  "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/76",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Effect of change in classification of vehicles for licensing purposes",
  "text": "(1) In a licence (whether full or provisional) granted before 1st January 1997, a reference to motor vehicles in an older category shall be construed as a reference to motor vehicles in the new category corresponding thereto and a reference to motor vehicles of a class included in an older category shall be construed as a reference to vehicles of the corresponding class included in the new category.\n(2) Where a licence granted before 1st January 1997 authorises only the driving of a class of motor vehicles included in an older category having automatic transmission, it shall authorise the driving of the corresponding class of vehicles in the new category having automatic transmission.\n(2A) Subject to paragraphs (3C) to (3E), in a licence (whether full or provisional) granted before 19th January 2013, a reference to motor vehicles in an old category shall be construed as a reference to motor vehicles in the new category corresponding thereto and a reference to motor vehicles of a class included in an old category shall be construed as a reference to vehicles of the corresponding class included in the new category.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), a reference in a licence to motor vehicles in an older category (or a class included in that category) includes a reference in a licence granted before 1st June 1990 to a group or class of motor vehicles which is, by virtue of any enactment, to be construed as a reference to vehicles in the older category (or a class included in that category).\n(3C) Where a licence (whether full or provisional) granted before 19th January 2013 authorises the driving of—\n(a) standard motor bicycles only, or\n(b) standard motor bicycles and side-car combinations only,\nany reference in that licence to motor vehicles in category A (save for those in sub-category A1) shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (3D).\n(3D) A reference in a licence of the type referred to in paragraph (3C) granted before 19th January 2013 to motor vehicles in category A shall be construed as a reference—\n(a) where the standard access period has not expired, to motor vehicles in sub-category A2; and\n(b) where that period has expired, to motor vehicles in category A.\n(3E) Paragraph (2A) shall not apply to a reference to vehicles in sub-category D1 in a licence granted before 1st January 1997.\n(3F) Where a licence granted before 19th January 2013 authorises only the driving of a class of motor vehicles included in an old category having automatic transmission, it shall not under this regulation authorise the driving of any vehicle not having automatic transmission.\n(4) In this regulation—\n“old category\" and “class included in an old category\" mean respectively a category and a class of vehicles specified in column (2) of the table at the end of this regulation,\n“older category” and “class included in an older category”, mean respectively a category and a class of vehicles specified in column (1) of the table at the end of this regulation,\n“new category” and “class included in a new category”—\n(a)in relation to an old category, means respectively the category (or, as the case may be, the sub-category) and the class of vehicles specified in column (3) of the table as corresponding to the relevant old category or class included in that old category; and\n(b)in relation to an older category, means respectively the category (or, as the case may be, the sub-category) and the class of vehicles specified in column (3) of the table as corresponding to the relevant older category or class included in that older category,\n“section 19 permit\" means a permit granted under section 19 of the 1985 Act.\nTABLE\n(1) Older category or class\n(2) Old category or class\n(3) Corresponding new category or class\nA (excluding A1)\nA\nA1\nA1\nB1\nMotor tricycles in categories AM and A and light quadricycles in category AM\nB1, limited to invalid carriages\nB1 (invalid carriages)\nB\nB\nB plus E\nB + E\nB+E\nB + E\nC1\nC1\nC1 plus E\nC1 + E (8.25 tonnes)\nC\nC\nC plus E\nC+E\nC plus E, limited to drawbar trailer combinations only\nVehicles in category C+E which are drawbar trailer combinations\nD1\nD1 (not for hire or reward)\nD1\nD1\nD1 plus E\nD1 + E (not for hire or reward)\nD1 + E\nD1 + E\nD, limited to 16 seats\nD1\nD, limited to vehicles not more than 5.5 metres in length\nD1 and vehicles in category D not more than 5.5 metres in length\nD, limited to vehicles not driven for hire or reward\nVehicles in category D which are either driven while being used in accordance with a section 19 permit or, if not being so used, driven otherwise than for hire or reward\nD\nD\nD plus E\nD + E\nF\nF\nG\nG\nH\nH\nK\nK\nL\nL\nP\nQ and AM",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 76(1)(2) substituted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 76(2A) inserted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 76(3) substituted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 76(3C)-(3F) inserted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 76(4) substituted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(e)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 76(4) inserted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(e)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 76(4) substituted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(e)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 76(4) Table substituted (19.1.2013) by The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/977), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 43(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2864/regulation/76",
    "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."
}