{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-exchangeable-licences-order-northern-ireland-2009/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-exchangeable-licences-order-northern-ireland-2009/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/302",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Exchangeable Licences) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-exchangeable-licences-order-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Designation of countries and territories",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), the countries and territories specified in Table 1 are designated under Article 19D(2)(b) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 as respects licences of the descriptions specified in paragraph (2).\n(2) The licences referred to in paragraph (1) are licences which—\n(a) authorise the driving of a class of vehicles corresponding to a class of vehicles included in licensing category A, B, B+E, F, K or P, and\n(b) which have been granted by the licensing authority of a country or territory specified in Table 1—\n(i) to a person who has passed a driving test in that country or territory, or\n(ii) by way of exchange for a licence granted in the United Kingdom or an EEA State , in any other country or territory specified in Table 1, in a country or territory specified in Table 2 or in a country or territory named in Schedule 2 to a person who had passed a driving test in such a State, country or territory.\n(3) A licence of a description specified in paragraph (2)(b)(ii), being a licence granted by way of exchange for a licence granted to a person who had passed a driving test in a country or territory specified in Table 2, shall not be exchangeable in so far as it authorises the driving of a class of vehicles corresponding to a class of vehicles included in licensing category A, notwithstanding that the licence authorises the driving in the country or territory specified in Table 1 of a class of vehicles corresponding to that licensing category.\n(4) Notwithstanding that a licence of a description specified in paragraph (2) authorises the driving of vehicles with manual transmission, that licence shall be exchangeable only to the extent that it authorises the driving of vehicles with automatic transmission if it was granted to a person who passed a driving test in a vehicle with automatic transmission.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(2)(b)(ii) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Driving Licences (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/194), regs. 1(1), 7(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in operation at 12.10.2009, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/302/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:30:43.497334+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."
}