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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-50",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/542",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/50",
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  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Disabilities prescribed in respect of Group 1 licences",
  "text": "(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—\n(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\n(b) 20.5 metres, in any other case.\n(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—\n(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\n(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,\nand that the driving of a vehicle by him in accordance with the licence is not likely to be a danger to the public.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2012/355",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2012/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012"
    },
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      "affecting": "nisr/2018/132",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018"
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    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 50(1)(2)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2013/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/542/regulation/50",
    "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."
}