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  "legislation": "nisi/1998/1074",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic (New Drivers) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
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  "number": "6",
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  "text": "(1) Subject to Part V, the Department shall not under Part II of the Order of 1981 grant a person whose test certificate has been revoked under paragraph 5, or whose Great Britain test certificate has been revoked under paragraph 5(1) or (1ZA) of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995 a full licence to drive any class of vehicles that, immediately before his test certificate was revoked, he was permitted to drive without observing prescribed conditions, unless he satisfies the Department that within the relevant period he has passed a relevant driving test.\n(2) In this paragraph “relevant driving test” means, in relation to a person whose test certificate has been revoked, any test which—\n(a) falls within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of Article 3(2); and\n(b) is a test of competence to drive any vehicle included in any class of vehicles that, immediately before his test certificate was revoked, he was permitted to drive without observing prescribed conditions.\n(3) If the Department grants a full licence to a person who is required to pass a relevant driving test in order to be granted that licence, the licence granted shall (subject to Articles 9 and 70 to 79A of the Order of 1981) be one authorising that person to drive all the classes of vehicles that, immediately before his test certificate was revoked, he was permitted to drive without observing prescribed conditions.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (1) “the relevant period” means the period beginning—\n(a) after the date of the revocation of the test certificate; and\n(b) not more than 2 years before the date on which the application for the full licence is made.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
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      "text": "2003 NI 16"
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      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 6(1) inserted (13.12.2010) by Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3)(4), 16, Sch. 2 para. 25(e) (with art. 84); S.R. 2010/370, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
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