{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licenses-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licenses-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/485",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licenses) (Amendment) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licenses-amendment-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 4 (Minimum ages for holding or obtaining licences)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(f) there shall be inserted after the words “a heavy goods vehicle (hgv) of a class” the words “or a large goods vehicle (lgv) of a category”, after the word “owned” the words “or operated” and after “hgv” the words “or lgv”, and in paragraph (4)—\n(i) for the definition of “heavy goods vehicle” there shall be substituted the following definitions:—\n““heavy goods vehicle” has the same meaning as in Part I of Schedule 1 to the road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989;\n“large goods vehicle”, “passenger-carrying vehicle” and “passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence” have the same meaning as in Part IV of the Road Traffic Act 1988;”;\n(ii) in the definition of “the Training Committee” there shall be inserted at the end of the words “or the National Joint Training Committee for Young LGV Drivers in the Road Goods Transport Industry”; and\n(iii) in the definition of “the training scheme” there shall be inserted after “hgvs” the words “or lgvs” and after “hgv”, in each place where it occurs, the words “or lgv”;\n(b) in paragraph 1(g) after the words “granted under section 22 of the 1981 Act”. in each place where they occur, there shall be inserted the words “or a passenger-carrying vehicle driver’s licence” and for the words “a test of his ability to drive a public service vehicle in pursuance of regulations for the time being in force under that section” there shall be substituted the words “a test of his ability to drive a passenger-carrying vehicle in pursuance of regulations for the time being in force under section 89 of the Road Traffic Act 1988”; and\n(c) in paragraph (1)(i) for the words “heavy goods vehicles of any class in preparation for a test of competence under section 119 of the 1972 Act to drive vehicles of that class” there shall be substituted the words “large goods vehicles of any category in preparation for a test of competence under section 89 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to drive vehicles of that category”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/485/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:49:43.179476+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."
}