{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-new-drivers-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-new-drivers-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1998/1074",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic (New Drivers) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-new-drivers-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Probationary period for newly qualified drivers",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Order, a person's probationary period is, subject to Article 9, the period of 2 years beginning with the day on which he becomes a qualified driver.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order, a person becomes a qualified driver on the first occasion on which he passes—\n(a) any test of competence to drive mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (c) of Article 5(1) of the Order of 1981;\n(b) any test of competence to drive conducted under the law of—\n(i) an EEA State;\n(ii) the Isle of Man;\n(iii) any of the Channel Islands; or\n(iv) Gibraltar.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 3(2)(b)(i) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Driving Licences (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/194), regs. 1(1), 5(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 3(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Driving Licences (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/194), regs. 1(1), 5(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1074/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:02.691063+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."
}