Regulation 50 Disabilities prescribed in respect of Group 1 licences

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

reg. 50(4)-(7) added by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2012 reg. 2
reg. 35(3(a) words substituted by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2012 reg. 3(22)(a)
reg. 50(4)(a) substituted by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2018 reg. 2(2)
reg. 50(5)(a) substituted by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2018 reg. 2(3)
reg. 50(6)(b) substituted by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2018 reg. 2(4)
reg. 50(1)-(2F) substituted for reg. 50(1)(2) by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2013 reg. 3(2)
reg. 50(7) substituted by Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) 2013 reg. 3(3)

(1)

There is prescribed for the purposes of Article 9(2) of the Order as a relevant disability in relation to an applicant for, or a person who holds, a Group 1 licence, the inability to read in good light (with the aid of glasses or contact lenses if worn) a registration mark fixed to a motor vehicle and containing letters and figures 79.4 millimetres high at a distance of—

(a)

12.3 metres, in the case of an applicant for a licence authorising only the driving of motor vehicles of a class included in category K; or

(b)

20.5 metres, in any other case.

(2)

Epilepsy is prescribed for the purposes of Article 9(4)(b) of the Order if an applicant for a Group 1 licence suffering from epilepsy satisfies one of the following conditions, namely that—

(a)

he has been free from any epileptic attack during the period of one year immediately preceding the date when the licence is granted; or

(b)

(if not so free from attack) he has had an epileptic attack whilst asleep more than three years before the date when the licence is granted and has had attacks only whilst asleep between the date of that attack and the date when the licence is granted,

and that the driving of a vehicle by him in accordance with the licence is not likely to be a danger to the public.

(3)

The disability prescribed in paragraph (1) is prescribed for the purposes of Article 11(5)(b)(ii) of the Order in relation to an applicant for, or a person who holds, a Group 1 licence.