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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-11",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/542",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
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  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Provisional licences: interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In regulations 12 and 13—\n“provisional licence”, in relation to a class of vehicles, includes a full licence which is treated, by virtue of Article 14 of the Order, as authorising its holder to drive vehicles of that class as if he held a provisional licence therefor;\n“qualified driver” means—\n(a) in the case of the supervision of the driver of a motor vehicle of a class included in category B, other than a vehicle in sub-category B1, by a person whose licence is limited by virtue of a notice served under Article 9(5)(b) of the Order to vehicles of a particular class, a person who holds a full licence authorising him to drive a vehicle of a class included in category B, other than a vehicle in sub-category B1, and who would in an emergency be able to take control of the steering and braking functions of that vehicle;\n(b) in any other case, a person who holds—\n(i) a full licence (other than an LGV trainee driver’s licence),\n(ii) a full Great Britain licence, or\n(iii) a Community licence,\nauthorising him to drive a motor vehicle of the same class as the vehicle being driven by the holder of the provisional licence, and who is either—\n(A) at least 21 years of age and has (unless paragraph (2) applies) held the licence referred to above for an aggregate period of 3 years or more, or\n(B) a member of the armed services of the Crown acting in the course of his duties for naval, military or air force purposes.\n(2) In the case of the supervision of a driver of a large goods or passenger-carrying vehicle of any class, it shall not be a requirement that he shall have held the licence for an aggregate period of 3 years or more.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2012/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/358",
      "affecting_title": "Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2012/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2015/357",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/542/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:32:19.925647+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."
}