Regulation 3 Amendments to regulation 33 (nil licences)

In regulation 33(3)(a), at the beginning insert “subject to paragraph (3A),”.

After regulation 33(3), insert—

“(3A)

A first nil licence may be granted for a period—

(a)

in accordance with paragraph (3)(a), or

(b)

consisting in the aggregate of 12 months commencing with the relevant month and the appropriate number of days.

(3B)

In paragraph (3A)—

• “first nil licence” means a nil licence for a vehicle on the issue of which the vehicle is first registered under the 1994 Act;

• “the relevant month” means the month immediately following the month in which the nil licence first has effect; and

• “the appropriate number of days” is the number of days between the tenth or seventeenth or twenty-fourth day (as appropriate) of the month in which the nil licence first has effect and the last day of that month (inclusive of both those days).”.