Regulation 32 Entitlement upon passing a test other than a test following disqualification until tested under Article 152 or 196 of the Order

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 35(3(a) words substituted by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2012 reg. 3(22)(a)
reg. 32(3) words substituted by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2012 reg. 3(17)(a)
reg. 32(4) omitted by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2012 reg. 3(17)(b)
reg. 32(5) words substituted by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2012 reg. 3(17)(c)(i)
reg. 32(5)(b) word substituted by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2012 reg. 3(17)(c)(ii)
reg. 32(5)(c) word substituted by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2012 reg. 3(17)(c)(ii)

(1)

Where a person passes a test prescribed in respect of a class of motor vehicles included in any category or sub-category (or a Great Britain test of competence corresponding to that test) the Department shall grant to him a licence in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2)

Subject to regulation 33, the licence shall authorise the driving of all classes of motor vehicle included in that category or sub-category unless—

(a)

the test or, as the case may be, the practical test is passed on a motor vehicle with automatic transmission, in which case it shall authorise the driving only of such classes of vehicle included in that category or sub-category as have automatic transmission;

(b)

the practical test is passed on an invalid carriage, in which case it shall authorise the driving only of invalid carriages;

(c)

the test or, as the case may be, the practical test is passed on a motor vehicle which is adapted on account of a disability of the person taking the test, in which case it shall authorise the driving only of such classes of vehicle included in that category or sub-category as are so adapted (and for the purposes of this paragraph, a motor bicycle with a side-car may be treated in an appropriate case as a motor vehicle adapted on account of a disability).

(3)

The licence shall in addition authorise the driving of all classes of motor vehicle included in a category or sub-category which is specified in column (2) of Schedule 1 as an additional category or sub-category in relation to a category or sub-category specified in column (1) unless—

(a)

the test or, as the case may be, the practical test is passed on a motor vehicle with automatic transmission, in which case it shall authorise the driving only of such classes of vehicle included in the additional category or sub-category as have automatic transmission;

(b)

the practical test is passed on an invalid carriage, in which case it shall authorise the driving only of invalid carriages;

(c)

the test or, as the case may be, the practical test, is passed on a motor vehicle which is adapted on account of a disability of the person taking the test, in which case it shall authorise the driving only of such classes of vehicle included in the additional category or sub-category as are so adapted.