Regulation 7 Application for the grant of licences: general

(1)

The Department may consider an application for the grant of a licence before the date on which the grant of the licence is to take effect if the application is received by it—

(a)

in the case of an application for a Group 2 licence, during the period of 3 months ending on that date;

(b)

in any other case, during the period of 2 months ending on that date,

and may during such period grant the licence so that it takes effect on that date.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraphs (1)(f) and (1A)(b) of Article 5 of the Order^f1 the holder of an exchangeable licence satisfies the relevant residence requirement if he has been normally resident in Northern Ireland for a period of not more than five years.

(3)

An applicant for a licence who before the licence is granted is required to satisfy the Department that he has passed a test shall at the time when he applies for the licence deliver to the Department, in support of that application—

(a)

a certificate furnished under regulation 37(1)(a);

(b)

a certificate corresponding to the certificate mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) furnished under the law of Great Britain;

(c)

where paragraph (2) of regulation 30 applies, certificates furnished under regulations 36(2)(a) and 37(2) in accordance with regulation 30(3); or

(d)

certificates corresponding to the certificates mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) furnished under the law of Great Britain.

(4)

A person may not present a certificate in support of an application as evidence that he has passed—

(a)

a test, a theory test or a practical test; or

(b)

a test corresponding to any of those tests conducted under the law of Great Britain,

if the applicant took the test in respect of which the certificate was issued at a time when he was ineligible, by virtue of an enactment contained in the Order or these Regulations or a corresponding provision of the law of Great Britain, to take the test to which the certificate relates.

(5)

Subject to paragraph (6) an application for the grant of a licence shall be accompanied by—

(i)

one clear unmounted facial photograph of the applicant of recent date, approximately 40 millimetres × 35 millimetres in size and endorsed on the back with the applicant’s name and address, and

(ii)

the appropriate fee as prescribed in regulation 10.

(6)

A licence may be granted to a member of the naval, military or air forces of Her Majesty without requiring him to furnish a photograph but such licence shall permit him to drive or ride a motor vehicle only when he is on duty and the motor vehicle is the property of the Crown.

(7)

An applicant for a Group 2 licence shall, if required to do so by the Department, send in support of his application a report (in such form as the Department may require) signed by a qualified medical practitioner, prepared and dated not more than 4 months prior to the date on which the licence is to take effect, for the purpose of satisfying the Department that he is not suffering from a relevant or prospective disability.

(8)

In this regulation, “Group 2 licence” has the meaning given in regulation 48.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Article 5(1A) was inserted by S.R. 1996 No. 426 Schedule 1 paragraph 2